By Kunle AjibadeIn June, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu conferred on him one of the major national honours: Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON), for his meritorious contributions to the restoration ...

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 director of "When Harry Met Sally" and "The Princess Bride" was found dead with his wife Michele, 68, in their Los Angeles home in December. Their son Nick Reiner has been charged with two counts ...

Mwangi’s writing was raw without being reckless, humorous without trivializing pain, and deeply human without losing sight of the political forces shaping daily life. His characters felt like ...

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 ...

Renowned author Prof Ngugi wa Thiong'o addressing Kenyan readers during the launch of his book Kenda Muiyuru. February 12, 2019. [File Courtesy] Senators have celebrated the late Prof Ngugi wa ...

NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O: "He wrote English like an African, another gift that very few people have," and later transitioned to writing only in his native Gikuyu language. PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIPEDIA Nairobi ...

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, ...

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 ...

With Ngugi, at Revolution Books in Harlem in 2018. He gifted me Wrestling With The Devil and I gave him my book, The Hearts of Darkness — How White Writers Created the Racist Image of Africa. Most of ...

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 ...