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 ...

The Nation spoke with the Kenyan novelist, essayist, and playwright—before his death—about his most recent essay collection ...

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My generation met him famous. His first novels he wrote as an undergraduate. One of them was the hugely popular ‘Weep Not, Child’; another was ‘The River Between.’ He was James Ngũgĩ, then he became ...

Reflecting on the life and legacy of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Dr Iqbal Survé explores the profound lessons he imparted about ...

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

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Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who rejected writing in the language of the colonizer, died at 87. NPR's Scott Simon previously spoke to him about his latest novel and waiting for the Nobel Prize.

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He produced most of his best work under intense persecution, threat, detention and, ultimately, irreversible exile.