Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o dead at 87
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, [...]
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