"The Kite Runner" is one of the most challenged books in schools due to a rape scene and discussion of topics such as suicide ...

How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

Author Namwali Serpell said she got bad reviews — and even death threats — after an excerpt from “Stranger Faces” was used ...

Peter Watson’s ambitious survey celebrates 500 years of innovation in science — but is patchier on the arts and the legacy of ...

The ALA Building Library Capacity Grants are intended to bolster library operations and services in libraries that had experienced cuts in staffing and or services as a result of the challenges of the ...

Mr. Ngugi composed the first modern novel in the Gikuyu language on prison toilet paper while being held by Kenyan ...

The Bengaluru-based AI startup, backed by Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal and venture capitalist Asha Jadeja, aims to scale ...

No African writer has as many major, lasting creative achievements in such a wide range of genres as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.

Ngũgĩ’s death was confirmed Wednesday by his family, who said he died peacefully with family members by his side. UC Irvine ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, the revered Kenyan man of letters and voice of dissent who in dozens of fiction and ...