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R¿r¿ n¿ r¿gano rwa k¿r¿u
R¿r¿ n¿ r¿gano rwa magegania
R¿r¿ n¿ r¿gano rw¿ na g¿keno
R¿r¿ r¿gano rw¿ na nguny¿r¿r¿
N¿ r¿gano rwa Abirika it¿
R¿gano rwa m¿nd¿ m¿ir¿
R¿gano rwa gw¿k¿wa na gw¿k¿ng¿¿ra
R¿gano r¿g¿t¿ma tw¿h¿ge na tw¿h¿g¿re
R¿gano r¿rat¿ria tw¿tiire na tw¿t¿ye na cit¿
Rekei t¿mb¿ke na Mfuachuma
Rekei at¿tware ng'endoin¿ cia kw¿yonera
Rekei tw¿menyere maing¿ mar¿a t¿toe
Rekei at¿hith¿r¿rie hitho iria it¿ire i hithe
Hitho iria ig¿t¿ma tw¿rore r¿ng¿ tw¿menye wega
Hitho iria ig¿t¿ma tw¿tiire na tw¿t¿ye na b¿r¿ri wit¿
Hitho iria ig¿t¿ma t¿gar¿r¿re m¿thi¿re na m¿kiny¿k¿rie it¿
¿tonga wa Abirika ¿tongie Abirika
¿tonga wa thiomi cit¿ ¿t¿me ithomithie Abirika
¿tonga wa meciria mait¿ ¿t¿me macarie Abirika it¿
M¿ikar¿re it¿ t¿m¿k¿rie ¿noore na ¿norie m¿oyo it¿
Njiarwa na njiarwa, tene na tene!
R¿u n¿ t¿mb¿ke r¿erain¿ na Mfuachuma
Na t¿k¿¿mb¿ka nake, na ithü tw¿yug¿re:
Nyoni nyonia nyone!
About the author
Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gikuyu. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, essays and scholarship, criticism and children's literature. He is the founder and editor of the Gikuyu-language journal, Mutiiri. Ngugi went into exile following his release from a Kenyan prison in 1977; living in the United States, he taught at Yale University for some years, and has since also taught at New York University, with a dual professorship in Comparative Literature and Performance Studies, and the University of California, Irvine. Ngugi renounced writing in English in July 1977 at the Nairobi launch of Petals of Blood, saying that he wished to express himself in a language that his mother and ordinary people could understand.
