The Nobel Prize in Literature is the one globally coveted award that Ngugi wa Thiong’o did not achieve. Ngugi, who died this week, was a paradox. He was at once iconic and iconoclastic. Did these two ...

Louise Gluck's win dealt yet another blow to Kenya’s Ngungi wa Thiong’o, the perennial nominee who had also been nominated for the same. Terming her as the unmistakable poetic voice, the Nobel Prize ...

The winner of this year’s Nobel prize for literature will be announced on Thursday, the Swedish Academy has revealed. Each year, around 600-700 individuals and organisations are invited to nominate ...

Makerere University recently celebrated the life and legacy of Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kenya’s renowned African novelist, thinker, and distinguished Makerere alumnus, whose literary journey began at the ...

We qualify this post with the disclaimer that nobody will truly know who wins the Nobel Prize for Literature until the Swedish Academy announces the laureate one fine October morning (the secretive ...