Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: a thorn in the side of the authorities, he did not dare return to Kenya until 2002 – whereupon he and his wife were sadistically attacked - Leonardo Cendamo Ngũgĩ wa ...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, the Kenyan writer and novelist who critiqued colonial rule as well as the post-colonial Kenyan government, died Wednesday in a hospital in Buford, Georgia. He was 87 years old. His ...

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, a groundbreaking novelist, playwright and memoirist whose writings explored the iniquities and ambiguities of colonialism in his native Kenya as much as the misdoings of the ...

Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who rejected writing in the language of the colonizer, died at 87. NPR's Scott Simon previously spoke to him about his latest novel and waiting for the Nobel Prize.

Celebrated Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong’o has died at the age of 87, Kenya's president said. Shaped by an adolescence where he witnessed the armed Mau Mau struggle for independence ...

One of Africa’s most celebrated authors Ngugi wa Thiong’o has passed away. The Kenyan writer and academic was 87 years old. Having published his first novel – Weep Not Child – in 1964, Ngugi pursued a ...

Artistic and intellectual ideological struggles are part of the overall struggle for survival and development.’(Ngugi wa Thiong’O, Moving the Centre,1993). ON Wednesday, May 28, 2025, the Kenyan-born ...

Renowned Kenyan author Prof Ngugi wa Thiong'o. [File, Standard] Renowned Kenyan author, academic and literary icon Prof Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who died on Wednesday, was more than a writer-he was a ...

Veteran Kenyan author and scholar, Ngugi wa Thiong’o has died at the age of 87. His daughter, Wanjiku wa Ngugi, confirmed his passing on Wednesday morning. “It is with a heavy heart that we announce ...

Ngugi wa Thiong'o went to jail for writing a play in his mother tongue, Gikuyu. During his year in prison, he wrote his first novel on toilet paper. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Kenya's celebrated novelist and ...