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Djinn
#1 Posted : Tuesday, October 05, 2010 4:08:56 PM
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http://www.guardian.co.u...n-nobel-prize-literature
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Magigi
#2 Posted : Tuesday, October 05, 2010 4:25:51 PM
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...I used to have alot of respect for this guy until he showed his tribal instincts during the 2007 elections. He can never win the prize...
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#3 Posted : Tuesday, October 05, 2010 6:38:19 PM
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d'oh!
Magigi wrote:
...I used to have alot of respect for this guy until he showed his tribal instincts during the 2007 elections. He can never win the prize...

d'oh! EXPLAINd'oh!
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#4 Posted : Tuesday, October 05, 2010 7:26:52 PM
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Read the article, but never read his books.
If he wins though, I'd be proud; proud of what is says or means about a Kenyan.
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#5 Posted : Tuesday, October 05, 2010 9:26:44 PM
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Magigi wrote:
...I used to have alot of respect for this guy until he showed his tribal instincts during the 2007 elections. He can never win the prize...



In your book it's a crime to express support for a certain politician? How perverse!
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#6 Posted : Wednesday, October 06, 2010 5:50:45 PM
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o deserves the Nobel Prize. I hope he wins! As a Kenyan, I am very proud when my fellow Kenyan succeeds in something - especially on the global stage.

It's the likes of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Wangari Mathai, Rudisha, Wanziru (sic), Vivian Cheruiyot, the Rugby team, Mzee Maruge etc. that are making the work of marketing Kenya very easy for the Kenya Tourist Board.
Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good returns.
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#7 Posted : Wednesday, October 06, 2010 6:00:49 PM
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Couldn't have come to a greater writer.
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#8 Posted : Wednesday, October 06, 2010 7:02:56 PM
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Magigi anything Kikuyu you don't like.
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#9 Posted : Wednesday, October 06, 2010 8:28:19 PM
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One great thing I like about Ngugi is his insistence on using his mother tongue for his books. Unlike the crap you get in some households where some people think that not teaching their kids their mother tongue is an achievement. Having said that I have only bothered to read one of his book. The River Between. A great great book.
He who can express in words the ardour of his love, has but little love to express. - Petrach, Son. (That men by various ways arrive at the same end. - Montaigne, The Essays of.)
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#10 Posted : Wednesday, October 06, 2010 8:33:22 PM
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safariant wrote:
Magigi anything Kikuyu you don't like.


Magigi is entitled to his own opinion on the man.
He who can express in words the ardour of his love, has but little love to express. - Petrach, Son. (That men by various ways arrive at the same end. - Montaigne, The Essays of.)
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#11 Posted : Thursday, October 07, 2010 12:42:16 AM
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Elder wrote:
safariant wrote:
Magigi anything Kikuyu you don't like.


Magigi is entitled to his own opinion on the man.



Who said he is not?
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#12 Posted : Thursday, October 07, 2010 10:25:56 AM
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WEEP NOT CHILD for THE RIVER BETWEEN will keep THE DEVIL ON THE CROSS. then THE BLACK HERMITE will say I WILL MARY WHEN I WANT.
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#13 Posted : Thursday, October 07, 2010 10:39:07 AM
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murenj wrote:
WEEP NOT CHILD for THE RIVER BETWEEN will keep THE DEVIL ON THE CROSS. then THE BLACK HERMITE will say I WILL MARY WHEN I WANT.



Murenj ,with so many grammatical errors are you for sure a Doc? A layman like me can be excused but a whole DocShame on you Shame on you Shame on you , are our cows really safe?
punda amecheka
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Magigi
#14 Posted : Thursday, October 07, 2010 11:30:05 AM
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..His books are first written in Gikuyu. Ngugi said: “In writing, one should hear all the whisperings, all the shouting, all the crying, all the loving and all the hating of the many voices in the past, and those voices will never speak to a writer in a foreign language.” The Guardian
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#15 Posted : Thursday, October 07, 2010 11:47:52 AM
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Clarification...I have not mentioned anywhere that I hate any tribe. What I said is that I used to hold the man in such high esteem that I did not expect him to make his political stand known at that time. Of course he is human and can say anything...but to win a nobel prize you should be sort of a super human...

...Now, for my Literature paper in form 4 exam I tackeld The River Between (which river now!!!) Kameno and Makuyu still echo in my mind. Mugo wa Kibiro, that great seer prophesies...

I have devoured the following books by him
1. The River Between
2. A grain of Wheat.
3. Wheep not Child
4. Petals of Blood.
5. Devil on the Cross ( Satani musalavani)
6. Black Hermit
7. Dedan Kimathi
8. Decolonising the mind
9. This time Tomorrow na kadhalika na kadhalika...

...was reading 'Wizard of the Crow' when he nagered me by supporting a political party and I left the book in a plane...
...But all the same a very prolific writer...
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Elder
#16 Posted : Thursday, October 07, 2010 12:10:45 PM
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safariant wrote:
Elder wrote:
safariant wrote:
Magigi anything Kikuyu you don't like.


Magigi is entitled to his own opinion on the man.



Who said he is not?


You.
He who can express in words the ardour of his love, has but little love to express. - Petrach, Son. (That men by various ways arrive at the same end. - Montaigne, The Essays of.)
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#17 Posted : Thursday, October 07, 2010 12:58:13 PM
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Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly chinese doctors know no english but treate their patients just fine. and why do we employ secretaries for? why do doctors write their notes in short hand most of the time?Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly : did you know that most medical terms are in greek? and a medical report typed on microsoft word has RED all over it? DECOLONISE YOUR MINDS. my brother is a fine architect earning a living in japan, he is more fluent in jappanese than english. YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE FLUENT IN ENGLISH TO EARN A LIVINGLaughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly
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vinii
#18 Posted : Thursday, October 07, 2010 3:16:30 PM
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..........the nobel prize has gone to Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.........Pole sana Ngugi !!
If you are an eagle don't hang around with chickens; chickens don't fly....
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Wakandi
#19 Posted : Thursday, October 07, 2010 3:17:25 PM
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And the winner is:

Mario Vargas Llosa
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Magigi
#20 Posted : Thursday, October 07, 2010 3:22:47 PM
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...I said it...How could a man who turned to village politics win a nobel prize!!!...and supporting a side that stole elctions? It is a NOBEL PEACE PRIZE...Mark that!!!

...Don't lynch me!
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