Ngugicampaignedin his more recent career not to writein English and also to urgeotherAfricanwriters to write innative languages and not in thelanguage of the colonizer.
As editor of a British publishing house Heinemann's African Writer Series, he edited, published and promoted early entrants into Africa's pantheon of writers: Kenya's Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ghana's Ayi Kwei Armah, Cameroon's Mongo Beti.