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 ...
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 ...
Renowned author Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o (third left) and his children (from left) Njoki, Tee, Wanjiku, Mukoma and Nducu when they met journalists at the Panafric Hotel, Nairobi, on Wednesday. . [PHOTO: ...
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 ...
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, a Kenyan novelist and playwright who explored the legacy of colonialism and the abuses of postindependence leaders with works that included an allegory on corruption written on ...
One of the protestors wearing a police helmet after it was snatched from a police officer during protests over the killing of blogger Albert Ojwang. [Collins Kweyu, Standard] This morning, barring ...
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 ...
NAIROBI – 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 ...
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.
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