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Tanzania:
UDSM to Honour Ngugi With Doctoral Degree Saturday
Daily News, 21 November 2013
THE University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) will award an honorary degree, better known in academic lingo as honoris causa, to a prominent Kenyan writer-cum-activist, Prof Ngugi wa… Read more »
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Ghana:
Professor Wa Thiong'o Speaks to High School Students
Ghana Govt., 25 October 2013
A Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o has said Pan Africanism must begin with the African… Read more »
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Africa:
WaThiong'o Urges Africa to Embrace Local Languages
Times of Zambia, 3 October 2013
AS we celebrate the country's independence golden jubilee next year when Zambia will clock 50 years there is need to reflect on the challenge posed by Ngugi wa'Thiongo's during a… Read more »
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Nigeria:
African Literary Prizes - Where Are the Translations?
Daily Trust, 20 July 2013
Last week, in my discussion of the Africa Writes Festival, which was held on the 5-7 July in London at the British library, I followed Kenyan author and language activist Ngugi wa… Read more »
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Uganda:
African Scholars Still Enslaved, Says Ngugi
New Vision, 1 July 2013
African languages and cultures are likely to die because scholars have abandoned their call and remained intellectually enslaved to the western world, renowned Kenyan novelist… Read more »
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Uganda:
Writer Ngugi Wa Thiong'o for Makerere Fete
New Vision, 25 June 2013
Celebrated Kenyan writer and distinguished professor, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, is due to grace the 50 years of the University of East Africa commemoration slated for this Saturday in… Read more »
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Zimbabwe:
African Writers in the Dock
The Herald, 17 June 2013
Ngugi wa Thiong'o famously began his writing career writing in English (publishing under the name "James Ngugi"). He had considerable success, but eventually turned to writing in… Read more »
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South Africa:
South Africa, BBC, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Honour Achebe
Vanguard, 28 March 2013
THE death of Africa's foremost novelist, Prof. Chinua Achebe, continues to resonate around the world. As Vanguard, yesterday, received a tribute from one of Africa's versatile… Read more »