Today, we celebrate the towering legacy of Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o, a literary giant whose pen has carved indelible marks across the landscape of African literature and consciousness. As we mourn ...

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

President William Ruto has led the country in mourning celebrated writer and scholar, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, describing him as “Kenya’s greatest man of letters and a fearless voice for justice, truth, and ...

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 ...

This 2010 image released by UC Irvine shows Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. (Daniel A. Anderson/UC Irvine via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the revered Kenyan man of letters and voice of ...

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the legendary Kenyan writer and fierce advocate for decolonization, left behind an open letter to President William Ruto before his death on Wednesday May 28, 2025, at the of age 87 ...

NEW DELHI: In literature, life, and language Kenyan legend Ngugi wa Thiong’o was always off centre, pursuing directions away from canonisation. He died this Wednesday in the US at the age of 87, but ...

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 ...

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.