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Widely regarded as east Africa's most influential writer, Ngũgĩ’s fiction and nonfiction books traced his country's history from British imperialism to home-ruled tyranny and challenged not ...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, the revered Kenyan author who in dozens of fiction and nonfiction books traced his country’s history from British imperialism to home-ruled tyranny, died at 87.
NEW YORK: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, the revered Kenyan man of letters and voice of dissent who in dozens of fiction and nonfiction books traced his country’s history f ...
Have we broken the natural contract between humans and rivers? The nature writer debates our relationship with the world’s waterways that inspired his latest book, Is A River Alive?
Celebrated Kenyan author and scholar Ngugi Wa Thiong'o passed on at his home on Wednesday, May 28, aged 87; The renowned author is described as the giant of African literature, known for his debut ...
The celebrated Kenyan author’s views on language and colonialism were not without controversy but he soldiered on and inspired generations of African writers June 17, 2025 e-Paper LOGIN Account ...
The search for a teenager who vanished in the fast moving East River resumed Saturday, as it emerged that a friend told the 15-year-old victim to get out of the water — because she couldn&#82… ...
She was the author of an award-winning book, The River and the Source and its sequel, I swear by Apollo. The novel, which made her a household name, was published in 1994.
Margaret Ogola . She won the 1995 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for the ‘Best First Book in Africa’ with ‘The River and the Source,’ a novel which follows the inter-related lives of four ...
In a memo to staff on Tuesday, Corinne Chin, director of news talent for recruitment, introduced AP’s 2025 class of global ...
Ngũgĩ said that four years later, while in London for a book launch, he learnt there was a plot to kill him on his return to Kenya. Ngũgĩ began self-imposed exile in the UK and then the US. He ...
But, at the risk of being patronising, maybe that’s the result of being a first novel. Ebbott is obviously a writer of lavish ...