4 days ago
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- Wall Street Journal
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o—East Africa's Leading Novelist and Social Critic, Dies at 87
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o returned from an elite boarding school in the 1950s to find his home had been burned to the ground by the British during Kenya's fight for independence.
Ngũgĩ (pronounced Ingoo-ghee) went on to become a prizewinning author, who, rejecting the colonial mindset, dropped his English name, James, and resolved to write only in the language of the Kikuyu people, his mother tongue.
