Tributes to acclaimed African literature giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who has died at 87 The prolific writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, originally from Kenya, died at 87 in Bedford, Georgia on ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In a bookstore in Kenya's capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who died Wednesday in the United States.

Africans are remembering the work of acclaimed author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, following his death in the U.S. They recall Ngũgĩ’s criticism of an autocratic administration, leading to his ...

The inaugural Sharjah Festival of African Literature was held in late January in Sharjah, U.A.E., and featured Nobel Prize winners Wole Soyinka and Abdulrazak Gurnah, among a panoply of literary ...

A little-known element is shedding light on the transatlantic slave trade. Researchers have assembled a map of strontium, a naturally occurring element, across sub-Saharan Africa. These data can ...

As it is now, African literature remains in a serious state of flux. The emerging dynamics, some of them are in tandem with the realities of the times, the current situation we are in at the moment.

Figure 1, the resulting cluster map, shows how the participants, young adult African American women, conceptualized psychosocial constructs and sociocultural determinants of cervical cancer prevention ...

The first book-length of digital literature in Africa has attracted a lot of . African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Kenya and Nigeria considers the ...

North Carolina legislators used "concept maps" unseen by the public to draw parts of the state House map, which is now under scrutiny in an ongoing gerrymandering lawsuit, a lawmaker testified ...

There is something beautiful about African languages carrying science, fictionalised of course, into imagined futures.