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"I started writing in Gikuyu language in 1977 after seventeen years of involvement Afro-European literature, in my case Afro-English literature ... wherever I have gone, particularly in Europe, I have been confronted with the question: why are you now writing in Gikuyu? Why do you now write in an African language?”
Identify the author of this passage.
"I started writing in Gikuyu language in 1977 after seventeen years of involvement Afro-European literature, in my case Afro-English literature ... wherever I have gone, particularly in Europe, I have been confronted with the question: why are you now writing in Gikuyu? Why do you now write in an African language?”
Identify the author of this passage.
Identify the author of this passage.
Updated On: Jul 18, 2024
- Nadine Gordimer
- Wole Soyinka
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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