Celebrated Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong’o has died at the age of 87, Kenya's president said. Shaped by an adolescence where he witnessed the armed Mau Mau struggle for independence ...

Ngugi wa Thiong'o went to jail for writing a play in his mother tongue, Gikuyu. During his year in prison, he wrote his first novel on toilet paper. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Kenya's celebrated novelist and ...

NAIROBI – In a bookstore in Kenya’s capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died Wednesday in the United States. Bennet Mbata, who ...

Thiong'o took aim at colonial rule and Kenyan elites Spent years in jail and exile after being threatened Hailed as 'towering giant of Kenyan letters' NAIROBI, May 29 (Reuters) - Celebrated Kenyan ...

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. His ...

Renowned Kenyan author and scholar Ngugi wa Thiong'o cremated. [File, Standard] Renowned Kenyan author and scholar Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been cremated in the United States, eight days after his death, ...

Nairobi performing arts studio perform ''Trials of Dedan Kimathi'' authored by the late professor Ngugi Wa thingo during the Professor Ngugi wa thiongo celebrations of his life and literal works at ...