Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o returned from an elite boarding school in the 1950s to find his home had been burned to the ground by the ...

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

In March 1979, police arrested novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o and his co-author Ngugi wa Mirie for "drinking after hours" and "behaving in a disorderly manner." At the Court, Justice Emannuel Okubasu ...

Renowned author and academic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has died at the age of 87. His daughter, Wanjiku wa Ngugi, shared the news, ...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, the revered Kenyan man of letters and voice of dissent who in dozens of fiction and nonfiction books traced his country's history from British imperialism to home-ruled tyranny and ...