| The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K. Silva is Professor of Indigenous Politics at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and author of Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism , also published by Duke University Press. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is the author of numerous works of fiction, poetry, plays, and criticism, most recently, Birth of a Dream Weaver . |