Name: Nyoni Nyonia Nyone (in Kikuyu)
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Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
ISBN: 9789966561916

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Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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East African Educational Publishers

Year

2017

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Kikuyu

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9789966561916

Nyoni Nyonia Nyone (in Kikuyu)

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938–2025) was a Kenyan writer, academic, and cultural activist, whose work marked a before and after in postcolonial literature. His essay Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986) remains a fundamental text in postcolonial studies, and his later novels and plays, written in Kikuyu, solidified his advocacy for African languages as a tool for cultural liberation.

Ngũgĩ died on May 28, 2025, in Buford (Georgia, USA), at the age of 87. Although he never won a literary award like the Nobel, he was a recurring candidate and received significant recognitions such as the PEN/Nabokov Award (2022) and the Premi Internacional Catalunya (2019). His passing stirred emotions worldwide: Kenyan President William Ruto described him as an “emblematic figure of African letters”.

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