Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, the Kenyan writer who was considered to be one of the founders of African literature, died last week at ...

Scholars, writers, and literary enthusiasts from across Africa and the diaspora paid glowing tributes to the late literary ...

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

In The Upright Revolution, arms, legs, hands and toes fantastically boast of how they each matter most before accepting competition will not take them very far. “What was the body anyway, they all ...

The remains of the late Kenyan writer and scholar Professor Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died aged 87, have been cremated in the ...

The Kenyan writer challenged Western influence on African culture and history, highlighting heritage and resilience ...

A personal remembrance of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who saw freedom in language, power in mother tongues, and poetry in memory.

The late Kenyan author committed to giving voice to the decolonial moment and vowed, in the late 1970s, to write only in his ...

Kenyan writer and academic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died on May 28, aged 87, was the first published English language novelist from East Africa. His first novel in English, ‘Weep Not Child,’ was ...

Analysis - 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 ...

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, considered one of east Africa’s ...