WASHINGTON — From religious leaders and politicians to activists and scientists, the world said goodbye to a number of ...

The passing of celebrated Kenyan writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on 28 May 2025 marks the end of a remarkable period in ...

The year 2025 has been difficult for Kenya and the wider African community, marked by the loss of influential figures across ...

This is part 3 in the series, Sacred Geography, Ancestral Memory & the Restoration of Meaning, which explores the natural and ...

New novels by Olga Tokarczuk and Kamilah Cole, nonfiction by John Darnielle and Olivia Nuzzi, a Booker Prize finalist and more. Credit...The New York Times Supported by Tokarczuk, a Nobel laureate in ...

In light of the death of Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on May 28, 2025, many literary fans are reflecting on his influence in French-speaking Africa. How is this author, who wrote first in English ...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, the Kenyan writer who was considered to be one of the founders of African literature, died last week at the age of 87. Remembering Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, ...

Ngũgi wa Thiong'o reads from his work in Mexico in 2017. He wrote across a huge variety of genres. Tania Victoria/Secretaría de Cultura CDMX/Flickr, CC BY-SA Who was Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o – and who was he ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a bookstore in Kenya’s capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died Wednesday in the United States. Bennet Mbata, who has sold ...