Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, the Kenyan writer and novelist who critiqued colonial rule as well as the post-colonial Kenyan government, died Wednesday in a hospital in Buford, Georgia. He was 87 years old ...

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kenyan writer who probed colonial shadows, dies at 87 One of the most influential African writers of his generation, Mr. Ngugi’s works grappled with the weight of colonial ...

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, a groundbreaking novelist, playwright and memoirist whose writings explored the iniquities and ambiguities of colonialism in his native Kenya as much as the misdoings of the ...