During Jamhuri Day celebrations on Tuesday, a Maasai elder was among those invited to offer prayers. He recited a Maasai cultural prayer. This was before preachers from major faiths had a chance to ...
US-based Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o's latest book is about to roll off the press, East African Educational Publishers, his Nairobi publisher, has said. The book, Kenda Muiyuru: Rugano rwa Gikuyu ...
As we honour the towering legacy of Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o — his radical defence of African languages and his defiant challenge to colonial cultural domination — we must recognise that this struggle ...
Renown author Prof Ngugi wa Thiong'o has released his 34th novel, a Gikuyu epic titled Kenda Muiyuru: Rugano rwa Gikuyu na Mumbi (loosely translates to perfect nine: the story of Gikuyu na Mumbi). The ...
He was 12 when it happened, when Ngugi wa Thiong'o witnessed the beating. Teachers at his British colonial school in the "white highlands" of Kenya caught one of his school chums speaking Gikuyu. The ...