Africa has just welcomed the path-finding Ngugi wa Thiong’o into the pantheon of ancestors. It was on Wednesday, May 28,...
The literary world is in mourning with the news that Professor Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, a monumental figure in African literature...
Chinua Achebe lived in glory as the one-man institution who conquered the world for Mother Africa, and the great Kenyan...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. The name itself is magical. Peculiar tone markers, an apostrophe in an unusual place, distinct from where...
Sunday, 5th January was the birthday of Ngūgī wa Thiong’o, the Kenyan literary giant. He was born on 5 January...
How do works published in indigenous languages travel when translated in English? What, if anything, is lost in translation and...
