One year after his passing, how should we remember Ngugi? 1. The early years At first, it was just enough to write. Because the silence had gone on for too long. In just a hundred years, between 1860 and 1960, the Africans between the two Rift Valleys experienced a most profound change to their existences in material, spiritual, biological, and even chronological ways. They have been forced to face the question of the very meaning of their existence ever since. Though epic in scale, much of this