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 ...

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 ...

“In the House of the Interpreter,” the new memoir by the celebrated African writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o, takes us to the hopeful and turbulent world of 1950s Kenya. And it begins with a startling image.

Like Sir Mick “Phillip” Jagger of the of the Rolling Stones, Professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o of the African Writers Series fame packs halls with nostalgic baby boomers and curious millennials. In the same ...

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, a groundbreaking novelist, playwright and memoirist whose writings explored the iniquities and ambiguities of colonialism in his native Kenya as much as the misdoings of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: a thorn in the side of the authorities, he did not dare return to Kenya until 2002 – whereupon he and his wife ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Louise Gluck's win dealt yet another blow to Kenya’s Ngungi wa Thiong’o, the perennial nominee who had also been ...

The fortunate teenagers of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s generation in colonial Kenya were able, like him, to attend boarding school. Despite their many tribal languages and cultures, youth from various Kenyan ...

This interview was originally broadcast on Feb. 13, 2013. "When whatever forces put you down, you don't stay down." Kenyan writer and professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o tells NPR's Michel Martin that this is ...