Born James Ngugi in 1938 ... As a young man studying at Makerere University, Uganda, Ngugi met Chinua Achebe in 1962 during a writers’ conference taking place at the university.

Apart from being a storyteller, he Plans are underway to build a world class heritage centre to be named Chinua ... Achebe, a writer many consider to be father of modern African literature. Born ...

To the best of my research, which may be inadequate, neither of the two boys was publicly given significant national ...

Many, including Ugandan poet and academic Prof Timothy Wangusa, have often wondered why Ngũgĩ, like his Nigerian counterpart Chinua Achebe ... and freedom. Born James Ngũgĩ in 1938 under ...

Depicting a single figure in each painting – a musician, artist and writer – Egonu represents the growing visibility of ...

For sure, he was one of those writers who were educated in colonial institutions ... his tackling issues was no different from Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Gabriel Okara, Cheikh Hamidou Kane ...

His work inspired successive generations of African writers, along with contemporaries like Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka ... Images While Mr. Ngugi was educated at Kenya’s British-run Alliance ...

Reflecting on her experience, Dr. Taiwo shares that her work with children’s books began after her daughter was born seven years ... Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart by ...

He parsed the conflicts between oral and written culture, between the city and the village, the educated and the illiterate ... Nigeria’s Chinua Achebe, who, following the acclaim of his ...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, the revered Kenyan man of letters and voice of dissent who in dozens of fiction and nonfiction books traced his country’s history from British ...