In 1967, when A Grain of Wheat was published by then James Ngugi, I was in Form Four at Friends School Kamusinga. Richard Pettit, our English teacher, praised the work. “Now,” he said, “James Ngugi ...

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

We are talking to you today because you wrote an essay not long ago called “From Misogyny to No Man’s Land: The Vanishing Male in Contemporary Literature.” What’s your argument in that ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex, in a decision which could have far-reaching implications for who can access single-sex services and spaces.

The UK’s most senior judges are about to deliver a judgement on a landmark case setting out the definition of a woman ... sex “for all purposes”. That argument is that someone who was ...

what kind of cake is it??” wondered one person, and another replied, “Trash 😭.” For Gia, arguments with her brother Quilez are just a cherished part of life. “That was one thing that my ...

One of the pope’s key arguments is that literature fosters empathy, which he sees as foundational for solidarity, sharing, compassion and mercy. By allowing us to see the world through others’ eyes, ...

For such an argument to have a proper premise, the definition of what Nigerian literature is must be somewhat quintessential. I have read various essays that have attempted to define Nigerian ...

A literary argument is a claim or a position that a writer or a speaker makes about a text, such as a novel, a poem, a play, or a film. A literary argument can be explicit or implicit, meaning ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The point of a public intellectual is to make wild arguments with maximum conviction.

Sinykin: On the other hand, he does restrict the core definition to what we do with literature — not with images, not with TV or film or new media. It’s very important to his argument that ...