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The passing of celebrated Kenyan writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o on 28 May 2025 marks the end of a remarkable period in African literary history - the fabulous decades in the second half of the ...
The remains of the late Kenyan writer and scholar Professor Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died aged 87, have been cremated in the ...
One of the world’s most acclaimed writers, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, has died at 87. A publicist for his U.S. publisher confirmed ...
Celebrated Kenyan writer and decolonial scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o passed away on 28 May at the age of 87. Many tributes and obituaries have appeared across the world, but we wanted to know more about ...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who has died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature - a storyteller who refused to be bound by ...
Following Ngũgĩ’s death at 87 in Bedford, Georgia, Kenyans remember when his writing criticized an autocratic administration, ...
A personal remembrance of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who saw freedom in language, power in mother tongues, and poetry in memory.
En una librería en la capital de Kenia, el propietario organizó un estante exclusivamente con libros del autor keniano Ngũgĩ ...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, the Kenyan writer and novelist who critiqued colonial rule as well as the post-colonial Kenyan government, died Wednesday in a hospital in Buford, Georgia. He was 87 years old.
Shortly before his death, The Nation spoke with the Kenyan writer about his most recent essay collection Decolonizing ...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, the Kenyan writer who was considered to be one of the founders of African literature, died last week at ...
The Kenyan man of letters wrote dozens of fiction and nonfiction books that traced his country's history from British ...