The Black Hermit

The Black Hermit was the first play by the Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and the first published East African play in English. The travelling theatre of Makerere College were the first to produce the play,^[1] putting it on in honour of Ugandan independence at the Ugandan National Theatre in Kampala in November 1962.^[2]^[3]^[4] The play was published in a small edition by Makerere University Press in 1963,^[2] and republished in Heinemann's African Writers Series in 1968.

References

↑ Geoffrey Axworthy (1984). "African Theatre". In Stanley Hochman. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International Reference Work in 5 Volumes. VNR AG. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-07-079169-5. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
↑ 2.0 2.1 Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo; Reinhard Sander; Bernth Lindfors; Lynette Cintrón (2006). Ngugi wa Thiong'o speaks: interviews with the Kenyan writer. Africa World Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-59221-265-1. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
↑ F. Abiola Irele, Biodun Jeyifo, ed. (2010). The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought. Oxford University Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-19-533473-9. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
↑ G. D. Killam, Alicia L. Kerfoot, ed. (2008). Student Encyclopedia of African Literature. ABC-CLIO. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-313-33580-8. Retrieved 17 November 2012.

Works by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Novels	Weep Not, Child (1964) The River Between (1965) A Grain of Wheat (1967) A Meeting in the Dark (1974) The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (1976) Petals of Blood (1977) Devil on the Cross (1980, 1982) Mother, Sing For Me (1986) Matigari ma Njiruungi (1986) Wizard of the Crow (2004, 2006)

Children's books	Njamba Nene and the Flying Bus (1986) Njamba Nene and the Cruel Chief (1988) Njamba Nene's Pistol (1990)

Plays	The Black Hermit (1963) This Time Tomorrow (1970) Ngaahika Ndeenda (1977)

Short stories	Secret Lives, and Other Stories (1976)

Essays	Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture, and Politics (1972) Writers in Politics: Essays (1981) Education for a National Culture (1981) Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-Colonial Kenya (1983) Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986) Writing against Neo-Colonialism (1986) Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom (1993) Penpoints, Gunpoints and Dreams: The Performance of Literature and Power in Post-Colonial Africa (1996)