The Samburu and Pokoto communities in Sossian ward have perennially been engaging in attacks and counter-attacks over pasture for decades. In June, two others were killed in Matigari area and several ...

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Behold, a great mountain has fallen! A titan of African Literature, Ngugi wa Thiong'o has passed on. A pioneering writer who told the African story relentlessly, he critiqued colonialism and the ...

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the Kenyan playwright, novelist and thinker, who died on May 28, has left a huge intellectual gap in Africa’s cultural and political landscape. Instead of mourning him, I have ...

Stephen Lukivi Ekero, a Masai Mara tour guide, is among two people who have been killed in devastating ethnic clashes in Matigari village, Laikipia County. There has been escalating tension between ...

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 ...

Two men were separately killed in related attacks in a village in Laikipia County causing tension and displacement of locals. This is after their houses were burnt in retaliations following the ...

Ngugi wa Thiong’o can easily be called the Chinua Achebe of Eastern Africa or Shakespeare of the same, but with less inclination to plays. For decades, he defined our literature in school and leisure ...

“I am Matigari, the one who has returned. I am Matigari, the one who will never rest until I find truth and justice.” — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Matigari (1986). “Where is truth? Where is justice? Where is ...

Celebrated Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o, whose sharp criticisms of post-independence elites led to his jailing and two decade in exile, has died at the age of 87, Kenya's president ...