As we honour the towering legacy of Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o — his radical defence of African languages and his defiant challenge to colonial cultural domination — we must recognise that this struggle ...

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 ...

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As a boarding school student in Kenya, in the early 1950s, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – who grew up to become one of the world’s most influential storytellers – was expected to speak only English, the language ...