An Overview: Five essays relating to the author on theories of colonialism and postcolonialism.Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature: Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Description of Simon Gikandi's study of Ngugi's works. Includes chapter contents and ordering information.Emory University Post-Colonial Studies: Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Includes biographical background, discussion of major themes, and descriptions of the author's works.Kenyan Writer Jailed: Article by Edward Hower from The New York Review of Books requesting that Ngugi be freed.Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Includes a biography and a list of works. Several of these include plot summaries, and excerpts from book reviews and from the books themselves. Also includes links to similar authors.Pegasos: Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Biographical information, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources.Release Ngugi: Letter by nineteen American authors expressing their concern at the detention of Ngugi, published in The New York Review of Books.Turning Toward the World: Ngugi's Petals of Blood: Analysis of the 1977 novel "Petals of Blood" by an English literature graduate student at San Francisco State University.