Prof Keorapetse Kgositsile was given a state funeral at the Heroes Acre, West Park Cemetery in Johannesburg, South Africa on January 16, 2018. There were also tributes to the fallen hero by Wole Soyinka, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. Prof Keorapetse Kgositsile, popularly known as Bra Willie, was the South African Poet Laureate […]
The first Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport took place in The Gambia from 7 – 17 January 2017. The guest headliner for the literary arm of events in Bajul was author Ngugi wa Thiong’o. The festival was founded by three people including Kadija George a literary activist, project arts manager and teacher/trainer. Then […]
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o is set to be feted by Sanaa Theatre Awards, Kenya’s only award ceremony dedicated to the performing arts. Also to be recognised are Odera Owiso and Lupita Nyong’o. The Sanaa Theatre Awards were set up in 2013 to recognize and awards excellence in the field of theatre in acting, set design, directing, […]
It was a special time in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria as the Ake Arts and Book Festival rolled into town from 15-19th November 2016. The festival kicked off official on 16th November with a colourful ceremony at the Hurbert Ogunde Hall at the 12 June Cultural Centre. Festival organisers had gone all the way this […]
Ngugi Wa Thiongo is this year’s winner of Korea’s Pak Kyong-ni Literature Award. The award worth 100 million won (89,300 U.S. dollars) is presented by the Toji Cultural Center, the Pak Kyong-ni Literature Award Committee, Gangwon Province, Wonju City and The Dong-A Ilbo. The Pak Kyong-ni Literature Award was started in 2011 to honor the […]
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Chimamanda Adichie and Taiye Selasi feature in a new series that speaks about Black identity by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is an art museum north of Copenhagen, Denmark that produce weekly videos on art, literature, music, design and architecture. Their Vimeo channel describes themselves as having, “videos on the arts, featuring […]
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s story The Upright Revolution (or Why Humans Walk Upright) is the story at the centre of Jalada Africa’s latest anthology dubbed The Translation Issue. The story which was initially written in Kikuyu and translated into English by Kenya’s leading author is a folk tale about the human body parts and a battle […]
Book: Weep Not Child Author: Ngugi Wa Thiong’o (James Ngugi) Publisher: East African Educational Publishers Year of publication: 1964 Number of pages: 136 Weep Not Child is the debut novel of Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. When the book was published it was the first by an African writer in the East Africa by the […]
The Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded by the Swedish Academy, is given annually to an author who, in the words of the will of Alfred Nobel, produced “in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction.” Although some individual literary works have been considered noteworthy, Nobel’s use of the word work […]
World famous Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong’o will at the end of the month appear at a festival for the first time with his writer kids Mukoma Wa Ngugi and Wanjiku Wa Ngugi in Jamaica. Ngugi Wa Thiong’o needs no introduction but if you are wondering who he is just google. His son Mukoma Wa […]
