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Ngugi is the most important contemporary African writer and one of the most popular writers for the Nobel Prize in Literature in recent years. In 2014, he ranked second among the most popular writers for the Nobel Prize. "Don't Cry, My Child" is his debut novel. The background is Kenya, Africa in the 1950s. The protagonists are two brothers. It tells a sad and powerful story.

"The Devil on the Cross" is a novel published in 1982 by the famous Kenyan writer Ngugi. Ngugi is one of the most well-known writers in Africa and the world's literary world, and one of the most popular candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature in recent years. The background of "The Devil on the Cross" is Kenya before and after independence. The story takes place in Nairobi, a prosperous city in Kenya. It describes the different experiences of four people during the colonial period and the early days of independence. The novel occasionally inserts some beautiful folklore and vivid proverbs to make the story more lively and colorful.

"Bloody Petals" is considered Ngugi's most outstanding masterpiece. The author calmly tells the truth of historical events slowly, using real life and memories as the background, using multiple narrative methods such as flashbacks, interludes and direct narratives, and denounces the fruits of independence being stolen by corrupt officials. It is a political novel and a story of four little characters. In "Knowing the Little Things", the author blends the heaviness of history into the lightness of life of little people.

Ngugi originally wrote in English, but later gave up Christianity, changed his English name, and began to write in the local Gikuyu language. Because he opposed the authoritarian regime, he fled to London in 1982 and later taught at American universities. Twenty-two years later, in August 2004, Ngugi returned to his hometown of Kenya. That month, the apartment where he lived was robbed, he was beaten severely, and his wife was raped. For this reason, he had no choice but to leave Kenya again and return to the United States. Afterwards, Ngugi wrote the novel "The Crow Wizard", which uses magical realism and exaggeration to allow the post-modern Jesus to turn himself into a crow wizard in an accident.