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

By Jeff .G. DokiArtistic and intellectual ideological struggles are part of the overall struggle for survival and development.’(Ngugi wa Thiong’O, Moving the Centre,1993).ON Wednesday, May 28, 2025, ...

As a young student in high school, I was greatly thrilled by the adventures of literature. Having grown up in the rural landscape and appreciative of the cultural heritage of our time, reading Ngugi ...

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.

One of his brothers was a freedom fighter against the British while another sibling was shot to death, Ngugi Wa Thinog’o ...

Professor Mukoma wa Ngugi said he only learned of his father Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s final moments through a sibling, adding that they had been estranged.

Ngugi wa Thiong’o lived as he wrote, “unbowed, uncompromising” — a true titan. Decades of exile, stemming from his unwavering ...

Mukoma wa Ngugi characterised his relationship with his father as strained, far from the warmth typically expected between a ...

The late Kenyan writer chose to write only in his native Gikuyu language after 1977. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...

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 ...