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May 29, 2025

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Great Kenyan Writer Who Centred African Languages, Dies at 87

The novelist, playwright, and theorist left a blistering legacy. He was, with Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, regarded as part of an unofficial trinity: the continent’s greatest pioneering writers.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji
Ngugi wa Thiong'o by Steve Zylius/UCI.

May 29, 2025

Ngugi wa Thiong'o by Steve Zylius/UCI.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Great Kenyan Writer Who Centred African Languages, Dies at 87

The novelist, playwright, and theorist left a blistering legacy. He was, with Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, regarded as part of an unofficial trinity: the continent’s greatest pioneering writers.
Victor Ebubechukwu Orji

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