Thank you for sharing this, Frederick! On Tue, 13 Jun 2023, 21:34 Frederick Noronha, <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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/CAN1wPW5%2BMkdRODDyXbmNXUFZYQgwNE__LVo_bucFj971qMQ1og%40mail.gmail.com.
