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29 May 2025
A Reading List: 10 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Works You Should Know
A look at the novels, essays, and poems that made the late Kenyan writer one of the most influential literary and political voices of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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10 October 2019
Veteran Kenyan Writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has Been Snubbed Again for this Year's Nobel Literature Prize
The 2018 and 2019 prizes have been awarded to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author Peter Handke respectively.
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Language is Never Neutral
Language can be an explosive device or a tool of liberation and that's why we must stay vigilant about how it's used.
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14 October 2016
Ngugi wa Thiong'o Snubbed of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Kenyans on Twitter were not happy about Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize for Literature over Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
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26 May 2016
Solange Claps Back at Commenter Who Questioned Why Her Son Speaks French Instead of an African Language
An exchange between singer-songwriter Solange and an Internet troll underscores a larger debate within African literary circles.
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