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Ngugi wa Thiong'o

December 2023

  • Longread best of 2023 composite

    The long read
    The best of the long read in 2023

    Our 20 favourite pieces of the year

July 2023

  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o at his home in California. Photograph: Michael Tyrone Delaney/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature – podcast

    The Kenyan novelist’s life and work has intersected with many of the biggest events of the past century. At 85, he reflects on his long, uncompromising life in writing

June 2023

  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o at his home in California November 2022.

    The long read
    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature

    The long read: The Kenyan novelist’s life and work has intersected with many of the biggest events of the past century. At 85, he reflects on his long, uncompromising life in writing

September 2022

  • Two women with painted faces and headdresses

    ‘Restoring the river’: why Kenyans are returning to precolonial spirituality

    From TikTok videos to traditional songs and stories, Kikuyu cultural beliefs and practices suppressed under 19th-century colonialism are seeing a revival

August 2022

  • Namwali Serpell

    Books interview
    Namwali Serpell: ‘I find uncertainty compelling in literature’

    The award-winning Zambia-born writer on her reading habits, being emboldened by Toni Morrison, and her belief that books aren’t about self-improvement, but engagement

October 2021

  • ‘Colonisers transformed themselves into “technical assistance”. We should say “technical assassins”’ … Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso, with French president François Mitterrand in 1986.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books on neocolonialism

    Decades of economic imperialism and conditional aid have inspired authors from Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o to Graham Greene to explore insidious western control

March 2021

  • Ngugi Wa Thiongo - The Perfect Nine The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi

    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o nominated as author and translator in first for International Booker

    Kenyan novelist’s The Perfect Nine is first work written in an indigenous African language to be longlisted

October 2020

  • NOV 2017 - LONDON; Jorie Graham, poet. Photography by Graeme Robertson

    The best recent poetry collections – review roundup

    Runaway by Jorie Graham; It Says Here by Sean O’Brien; The Problem of the Many by Timothy Donnelly; and The Perfect Nine by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

June 2018

  • Zindzi Mandela and Zwelabo Mandela

    Mandela's relatives to visit prisoners as part of Edinburgh book festival

    Zindzi Mandela and her grandchildren will hold private reading at Shotts prison

March 2018

  • Kibera, a suburb in Nairobi, Kenya.

    Top 10s
    Bank heists, political satire and Ngugi wa Thiong’o: top 10 books about Kenya

  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: 'Resistance is the best way of keeping alive'

October 2017

  • The late author Chinua Achebe at his home in Warwick

    Perspectives on decolonising and diversifying English teaching

  • Could this be 2017’s Nobel laureate? … Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.

    Nobel prize in literature set to reveal 2017 winner on 5 October

June 2017

  • Ngugi wa Thiong’o

    Leading author joins boycott of Swedish book fair due to extremist newspaper's presence

    Ngugi wa Thiong’o cancels attendance because of Nya Tider, but organisers says ‘dialogue is best way to beat racism and xenophobia’

October 2016

  • A nose ahead of the field ... Haruki Murakami.

    Haruki Murakami named 4/1 favourite to win 2016 Nobel prize in literature

    The hugely popular Japanese novelist is Ladbrokes’ most-backed author for the award, with Adonis, Philip Roth and Ngugi wa Thiong’o close behind

March 2016

  • Ngugi wa Thiong'o<br>Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2006. Scotland, United Kingdom 14 August 2006

    Short story by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o translated into over 30 languages in one publication

    The Kenyan author’s story The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright is ‘the single most translated short story in the history of African writing’

September 2015

  • Daniel arap Moi

    A week in Africa
    Despite decades of exile, I still feel the pull of my homeland

    Ngugi wa Thiong'o
    In 1982 I fled the Kenyan dictatorship’s threats on my life. But I can never forget the feelings of hope and of mutual care that I experienced in my childhood village

June 2015

  • book on grass

    Books blog
    Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?

    Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them – plus our favourite literary links

October 2014

  • Haruki Murakami at the Edinburgh international books festival in August.

    Haruki Murakami joint favourite to win Nobel prize for literature

    Three days before the winner is announced, novelist shares odds of 4/1 with Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, while Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich is third favourite at 7/1

December 2013

  • MDG : Best Books for Christmas from the World library

    World library
    The best books for Christmas

    Pushpinder Khaneka: Stuck for gift ideas? From Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk to Hisham Matar's In the Country of Men, we've put together a list of eight present perfect titles from around the world

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