Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who has died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature - a storyteller who refused to be bound by jail, exile and illness. His work spanned roughly six decades, primarily ...

The impact of Ngugi wa Thiong’o extends far beyond the literary realm. His advocacy for African languages has spurred ...

In a bookstore in Kenya’s capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died Wednesday in the United States. Bennet Mbata, who has sold ...

What is the state of African literature given the number of African writers-poets, novelists, playwrights, more, who have moved to the Western world overtime? This issue of the mixture of African ...

"She unashamedly borrows Achebe's style. But on the whole, I will say she is the new face of Nigerian literature." For Ms Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun is not some distant tale of the horrors of ...

Kenyans are reminiscing about the work of author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died Wednesday in the U.S. They recall Ngũgĩ’s criticism of an autocratic administration, leading to his arrest ...

Long obscured in literature and public life ... cropping up across the continent with the goal of publishing African writers for a primarily African audience. Social media and adaptations for ...

Bennet Mbata, who has sold African literature at the Nuria Bookstore for more than 30 years in Nairobi, said he enjoyed reading Ngũgĩ’s writing and is sad “he’ll never write again.” ...