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

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

Renowned Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o has died at age 87, his family members have announced. “It is with a heavy heart ...

Celebrated Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o, whose sharp criticisms of post-independence elites led to his ...

Legislators have described the death of author, playwright, and post-colonial theorist Ngugi wa Thiong’o as the end of an era in the African literary community and beyond.Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who passed ...

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 ...

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, a Kenyan novelist and playwright who explored the legacy of colonialism and the abuses of postindependence leaders with works that included an allegory on corruption written ...

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

Following Ngũgĩ’s death at 87 in Bedford, Georgia, Kenyans remember when his writing criticized an autocratic administration, ...

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