Ngugi wa'Thiong'o has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 5 ratings. The most-rated is Dreams in a Time of War.
Dreams in a Time of War
Summary
Of Kenya's largest ethnic group, the Kikuyu, Ngugi wa Thiongo was born in 1938 in the backlands of his country (Kiambu district) to a father whose four wives bore him two dozen or so children. Ngugi was the fifth child of the third wife. His father was a peasant farmer forced to become a squatter after the British Imperial Act of 1915. Before going off to school, he had what was then considered a bizarre and inexplicable thirst for learning. He spent his early years, as World War II affected the lives of Africans under British colonialism in surprising and unexpected ways, living in a family compound, very much the apple of his mother's eye. In Dreams in a Time of War he richly evokes a bygone era, capturing with a novelist's eye the landscape, the people (his grandparents, parents and siblings) and their culture, the social and political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and war, and the troubled relationship between non-Christians and Christians. Too, he deftly etches how the native, anti-colonial insurgency, the Mau Mau rebellion (1952-1963) - which failed militarily but may have hastened Kenyan independence - informed not only his but the lives of those closest to him. His mother would be tortured, a stepbrother killed. Dreams in a Time of War abounds with at once delicate and powerful subtleties and complexities that are movingly told.
©2010 NgUgi wa Thiong'o (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
Pete the Cat
Summary
When Pete wakes up on Easter morning, he finds that the Easter Bunny needs his help! Listen along to find out if Pete can help the Easter Bunny before Easter is over!
©2014 James Dean (P)2014 HarperCollins Publishers