The Martyr by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | Resources

The Martyr Further Reading

Booker, M. Keith, The African Novel in English, Heinemann, 1998.

Includes the chapter, "A Brief Historical Survey of
the African Novel" as well as discussion of Ngugi's
Devil on the Cross and works by Chinua Achebe,
Ama Ata Aidoo, and Nadime Gordimer.

Jussawalla, Feroza, and Reed Way Dasenbrock, eds., Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World, University Press of Mississippi, 1992.

Includes interviews with such prominent writers as
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Chinua Achebe, Anita Desai,
and Sandra Cisneros.

Larson, Charles R., ed., Under African Skies: Modern African Stories, Farrar, Straus, 1997.

A collection of short stories by writers from a wide
range of national and regional locales throughout
Africa. Includes "A Meeting in the Dark" by Ngugi
wa Thiong'o.