Not merely a writer, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was a force that changed how Africa saw itself and how the world saw the continent’s pursuit of intellectual and cultural sovereignty. May 28, 2025, marked the ...

On weekends, before the acid rains of dictators Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Arap Moi began to beat our family, we would get up ...

No African writer has as many major, lasting creative achievements in such a wide range of genres as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.

With Ngugi, at Revolution Books in Harlem in 2018. He gifted me Wrestling With The Devil and I gave him my book, The Hearts ...

The country did not treat Prof Ngugi well despite his global stature and immense contribution to literature and political ...

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 1977 ...

Mr. Ngugi composed the first modern novel in the Gikuyu language on prison toilet paper while being held by Kenyan ...

Shortly before his death, The Nation spoke with the Kenyan writer about his most recent essay collection Decolonizing ...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who has died aged 87, was a Kenyan novelist whose work could manage to be both poignant and darkly funny ...

A Kenyan court has sentenced three security guards to death for attacking and robbing renowned Kenyan novelist and playwright, Ngugi wa Thiong'o. His wife was also raped and burnt with cigarettes ...

This story captures the life that Ngugi led while in Kenya, where being thrown into prison was the order of the day. The ...

Why is Kenya, a small country, so well known across the globe? Is it because of our world-class runners who dominate ...