In the second volume of Ngugi's memoirs called "Birth of the Dream Weaver", subtitled "A Writer's Awakening" that is set in Makerere, Ngugi says a lot about Peter. The music he played at the University, he writing and performing in a play, Peter's writing a critique of his play "The Black Hermit" produced at the National Theater, and more, including references to Peter's two novels.
In Chapter 1 Page 1, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o writes: "Peter Nazareth might have understood. Though a year ahead of me in college, he was actually the younger by two years; he was born in Kampala, Uganda, in 1940 and I in Limuru, Kenya, in 1938. We had worked together for Penpoint, the literary magazine of the Department of English, but he had just graduated, having passed the editorship on to me. So I communed with myself, alone, trying to rally my nerves in a reality I felt helpless to alter. My one-act play, The Wound in the Heart, would not be allowed at the Kampala National Theater in the annual nationwide drama festival...." The full-text of this 254-page book is available here: http://www.sunchina.co.uk/books/ngugi/birthofadreamweaver.pdf FN I hope the New Year is going well for you. On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 at 17:50, V M <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was delighted to find the mention of Peter Nazareth, and an > evocation of the heady post-colonial idealism at Makerere University, > in this fine #longread profile of the great Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: > https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/13/ngugi-wa-thiongo-kenyan-novelist-profile-giant-of-africa-literature > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Goa-Research-Net" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAN1wPW4yjZqwohuQvbe7vp50ryMDspqHxhCcdd0-vL_wVp5B4Q%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAMCR53KHEJethkOQAwawod_nf%3DoyMoN_6mkMKo4v28KB8OONpQ%40mail.gmail.com.
