Tag Archives: ngugi wa thiongo
Ngũgĩ’s wa Thiong’o’s Ashes Stir the Dust of Ancestral Graves
Jun 06, 2025 at 08:36 AM
By Silas Gisiora Nyanchwani Regarding cremation, the Kikuyus are miles ahead of other Kenyan native tribes. The list of famous and prominent Kikuyus who opted for cremation in the last 10 years grows long and longer every year. And those are the ones that we know. I think people from Western Kenya are more disappointed […]
From Ngũgĩ’s Pen to Gen Z’s Protest: The Unfinished Kenyan Rebellion
Jun 01, 2025 at 04:45 AM
By Isaac Dan Bw’Onyancha Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was not just a writer. He was a rebel, a fighter, a truth-teller. His pen, sharp as a spear, cut through the falsehoods of colonialism and later, the betrayals of Kenya’s own post-independence elite. Today, as Kenya’s streets fill with the voices of a rising Gen Z demanding […]
The Day I Met Ngũgĩ: A Scribe’s Tribute to a Literary Titan
May 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
By Nyang’au Araka In 2015, I entered a hall at Kisii University with my tool of trade—the camera. I was a young journalist documenting history. Although this was an academic setting, politician Raila Odinga turned out to be the center of attention that day, his presence a gravitational force pulling every lens. But beyond the […]