Literature There is notable literature written in the Kikuyu language. For instance, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Mũrogi wa Kagogo (Wizard of the Crow) is the longest known book written in Kikuyu. Other authors writing in Kikuyu are Gatua wa Mbũgwa and Waithĩra wa Mbuthia. Mbuthia has published various works in different genres—essays, poetry, children stories and translations—in Kikuyu. The late Wahome Mutahi also sometimes wrote in Kikuyu. Also, Gakaara wa Wanjaũ wrote his popular book, Mau Mau Author in Detention, which won a Noma Award in 1984. In popular culture In the 1983 movie Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, the character Nien Nunb speaks in the Kikuyu language. References Bibliography Armstrong, Lilias E. 1967. The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. London: Published for the International African Institute by Dawsons of Pall Mall. Barlow, A. Ruffell and T. G. Benson. 1975. English-Kikuyu Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Barlow, A. Ruffell. 1951. Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, Benson, T. G. 1964. Kikuyu–English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Gecaga B. M. and Kirkaldy-Willis W.H. 1953. English–Kikuyu, Kikuyu–English Vocabulary. Nairobi: The Eagle Press. Leakey L. S. B. 1989. First Lessons in Kikuyu. Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau. Mugane John 1997. A Paradigmatic Grammar of Gikuyu. Stanford, California: CSLI publications. External links Robert Englebretson (ed.), "A Basic Sketch Grammar of Gĩkũyũ", 2015. Gikuyu alphabet and pronunciation at Omniglot African Language Resources Muigwithania 2.0 – First Kikuyu Newspaper revived on the Internet PanAfrican L10n page on Gikuyu Gikuyu blog Gĩkũyũ Language Page (Wiki Created by Linguistic Field Methods Course at UMass Amherst) First Course in Kikuyu (vol. 1; see ref. for v2 & v3) My First Gikuyu Dictionary Kikuyu Northeast Bantu languages Subject–verb–object languages Languages of Kenya