Secure the Base: Making Africa Visible in the Globe

The first comprehensive collection of Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's nonfiction, spanning lectures and texts on colonialism, labor and political struggles, and the legacies of slavery.

For more than sixty years, Ngũgĩwa Thiong’o has been fearlessly writing about the questions, challenges, histories, and futures of Africans, particularly those of his homeland, Kenya. In his work, which has included plays, novels, and essays, Ngũgĩ narrates the injustice of colonial violence and the dicta...