During his imprisonment, Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o decided he would never write in English again, a defiant move that ...

When a mother encourages her child to master English or Urdu, she's not denying her roots. She's reading the world and making ...

Is using “u” instead of “you” really a sign that civilization is crumbling? Texting abbreviations have long been in the eye ...

The season of the spelling bee, that pulchritudinous pageant, is once again upon us, as the country’s most orthographically ...

The other night, my friend Rick and I were talking about how many teachers had influenced our lives. He had five. I had four. My first great one was my mother. She had learned English at age 11, fresh ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, the revered Kenyan man of letters and voice of dissent who in dozens of fiction and ...

Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o, considered one of east Africa’s greatest literary figures, died on Wednesday, his daughter announced on Facebook ...

His early works were heavily influenced by his country's battle against colonial rule and the brutal Mau Mau war of 1952-1960.

Banu Mushtaq’s ‘Heart Lamp’, winning the 2025 International Booker Prize — the first ever for a Kannada work, marks the ...

Renowned Kenyan author and academic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has died aged 87 after a long battle with health complications, his ...

The estate started taking shape in 1913, when English immigrant William Robertson Coe, chairman of the marine insurance ...