Ngũgĩ's Wizard of Crows has sold over 20,000 copies in all editions, including 8K in hard cover This memoir has never been published in the United States. (It's a highly revised version of his memoir Detained , that was published in London in the early 1980s.) Ngũgĩ's books have received glowing blurbs and reviews from The Guardian , the New Yorker , Times Literary Supplement , Los Angeles Times , Washington Post , Chicago Tribune , New York Times Book Review , Boston Globe , Counterpunch , Independent (London), Daily Beast , Ebony , and Christian Science Monitor. Ngũgĩ has 152,565 followers on Facebook. Ngũgĩ was a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award, and he was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize. He won the 2001 Nonino International Prize for Literature, and he is annually tipped to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Ngũgĩ travels all the time, in the United States and globally. He is an energetic traveler & wonderful, funny and inspiring speaker. He spoke at the 2015 PEN World Voices festival. Ngũgĩ is affiliated with PEN American Center and UC Irvine