Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o at Elliott Bay Book Company
November 17, 2020
- 6:00 pm PT
Elliott Bay Book Company
Virtual Event,
Renowned Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o discusses his new novel in verse The Perfect Nine, which blends elements of adventure with suspense and humor to retell the origin myth of the Gĩkũyũ people. Ngũgĩ’s epic is a quest for the beautiful as an ideal of living, as the motive force behind migrations of African peoples.