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 ...

Makerere University has celebrated the life and legacy of Ngugi wa Thiong’o the renowned African novelist, thinker, and ...

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 ...

Introduction: reading texts and contexts -- Narrative and nationalist desire: early short stories and The river between -- Educating colonial subjects: the "emergency stories" and Weep not, child -- ...

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 ...

The National Assembly paused its proceedings on Thursday to honour Ngugi wa Thiong’o, one of Africa’s most celebrated literary icons. In a tribute delivered on the floor of the House, Speaker ...

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.