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

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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 ...

A lot of ink has been spilt on Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o since his passing two weeks ago at the ripe age of 87. So, I won’t plough those fields, or tread on roads already travelled. Instead, from my ...

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

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 ...

On May 28, 2025, an African literary iroko fell. Ngugi wa Thiong’o departed the earth at 87 years old and joined the realm of the ancestors. Born James Ngugi in 1938, he rejected his birth name in ...

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 ...

•This tribute first appeared in “Flowers of the Rift Valley”, a section on Kenya in my book, If Only the Road Could Talk: Poetic Peregrinations in Africa, Asia, and Europe, published in 201 ...