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, his 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 On Wednesday, 14 June 2023 at 01:12:27 UTC+5:30 VM 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 > -- *** Please be polite and on-topic in your posts. *** --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Goa Book Club" 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-book-club/e5c5de63-e591-46de-a1f1-3bfcdf1891e8n%40googlegroups.com.
