With novels like "The Devil on the Cross" and "Matigari" writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o sheds light on the failings of post-colonial Kenya. This cost Ngugi his home. Africa has lost a pioneering author and ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Thiong’o’s 'Devil on the Cross' a bracing slap at Kenya corruption
So says Warĩĩnga, heroine of Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o’s “Devil on the Cross,” a classic indictment of neocolonialism and corruption in Kenya. First published in Gĩkũyũ in 1980 and then in ...
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 ...
KERA News: Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who rejected writing in the language of the colonizer, dies at 87
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 ...
Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who rejected writing in the language of the colonizer, dies at 87
Yahoo: Ngugi wa Thiong’o, dissident Kenyan novelist who drafted a book on prison lavatory paper
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, dissident Kenyan novelist who drafted a book on prison lavatory paper
WUWM: Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who rejected writing in the language of the colonizer, dies at 87
standardmedia.co.ke: A tribute to the giant of African literature Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong’o can easily be called the Chinua Achebe of Eastern Africa or Shakespeare of the same, but with less inclination to plays. For decades, he defined our literature in school and leisure ...