KEMET AWARDS

To recognize organizations and individuals that have committed themselves to contributing towards the importance of African languages in empowering and developing the continent

About KAAAL

We decided to launch KAAAL in honor of the philosophy and work of Prof. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o who has called on us African People to decolonize our minds. It is important to re-educate and remind ourselves and the world that the civilization that impacted the world to the present day, was an African language civilization KEMET.

In adopting this name we hope to remind people of African decent and the the world that  ‘Ancient Egypt’ was an African civilization and through this act of remembering reclaim our lost history. Whilst the culture had contact with people from other civilizations, it was essentially African in its culture in addition to being geographically in Africa.Greek philosophers, mathematicians, scientists, writers and poet went to Kemet to learn and study.

Mission

To recognize organizations and individuals that have committed themselves to contributing towards the importance of African languages in empowering and developing the continent; that have contributed to literature, history, development, culture, politics, gender, environment and Science & Technology.

Co-Operations:

List of Books by Prof. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi, 2020
Kenda Mũiyũru: Rugano Rwa Gikuyu Na Mumbi: Rũgano rwa Gĩkũyũ na Mũmbi, 2018
Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir, 2018 Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Memoir of a Writer’s Awakening, 2016
Secure the Base, 2016
In the Name of the Mother: Reflections on Writers and Empire, 2013
In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir, 2012
Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing, 2012
Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir, 2010

Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance, 2009
Wizard of the Crow, 2006Mũrogi wa Kagogo (Wizard of the Crow), 2004

Penpoints, Gunpoints and Dreams: The Performance of Literature and Power in Post-Colonial Africa, 1998
Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom, 1993
Njamba Nene’s Pistol (Bathitoora ya Njamba Nene), 1990 (children’s book)Matigari (English translation), 1989
Njamba Nene and the Cruel Chief (Njamba Nene na Chibu King’ang’i), 1988 (children’s book)Matigari ma Njiruungi, 1986
Njamba Nene and the Flying Bus (Njamba Nene na Mbaathi i Mathagu), 1986 (children’s book)Writing against Neo-Colonialism, 1986
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, 1986
Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-Colonial Kenya, 1983
Devil on the Cross (English translation), 1982
Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary, 1981
Education for a National Culture, 1981
Writers in Politics: Essays, 1981
Caitaani mutharaba-Ini (Devil on the Cross), 1980

Petals of Blood, 1977
I Will Marry When I Want (Ngaahika Ndeenda: Ithaako ria ngerekano), 1977 (play; with Ngugi wa Mirii)
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, 1976, (play; with Micere Githae Mugo and Njaka)
Secret Lives, and Other Stories, 1976
A Meeting in the Dark, 1974
Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture, and Politics, 1972
This Time Tomorrow (three plays), c. 1970

The Black Hermit, 1968
A Grain of Wheat, 1967
The River Between, 1965
Weep Not, Child, 1964