| Reference number: |
MS 337274
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| Summary: |
Typescript and photocopy with author's corrections.
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| Main author: |
Ngugi wa Thiong'o (b 1938); Kenyan writer
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| Note: |
Part of the Heinemann Educational Books Ltd Collection of manuscripts, typescripts, and proof copies of prose-fiction and non-fiction published by Heinemann Educational Books Ltd. The collections includes manuscripts and typescripts from the Heinemann African Writers Series; Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series; Heinemann Studies in African Literature series; Heinemann Secondary Readers series; and miscellaneous other Heinemann works relating to Africa. The largest part of the Collection was presented to SOAS Library by the publishers Heinemann Educational Books in the 1970s and 1980s; a smaller number of works were donated or deposited directly by the authors; a few works were purchased.
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| Acquisition: |
Acquired by SOAS Library from Ngugi wa Thiong'o on 10th December 1975.
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| Access status: |
Open
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| User restrictions: |
No copying permitted. |
| Language: |
English
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| Related material: |
The company archive of Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, 1946-80, is held at The Archive of British Publishing and Printing, Special Collections, University of Reading. These records include correspondence between the publisher and the writers, and reviewers' reports on manuscripts. |
| Publications: |
Published work: Ngugi wa Thiong'o, ‘Homecoming: essays on African and Caribbean literature, culture and politics’, Studies in African Literature, Heinemann, 1972.
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| Format: |
Archive
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