Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who has died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature - a storyteller who refused to be bound by ...

Image source, Getty Images Image caption ... Ngũgĩ became known as one of the foremost advocates of literature written in African languages. Throughout his career - and to this day - African ...

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

There is also space for literature to expand its ... s ‘Meditations on Greatness’ talk. While ‘images of success in the West do not reflect African writers,’ he also said that greatness ...

Getty Images Kenyans were frequently interrogated ... Throughout his career - and to this day - African literature was dominated by books written in English or French, official languages in ...

Achraf Hakimi is the second African to win the UEFA Champions League with two clubs. Does his standing in the continent's ...

British writer Bernardine Evaristo has won the Women’s Prize Outstanding Contribution Award for her “transformative impact on literature.” ...

Bob Jeffrey, the chief executive of the International Centre of Photography (ICP), says such is the “enduring power” of an ...

The debates at Makerere included, among other things, the question of what constituted African literature, and whether literature in non-African languages (including English) could ever be truly ...