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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Kenyan author and dissident who became a giant of modern literature, dies at 87
Thiong’o was admired worldwide, including by authors John Updike and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and by former President Barack ...
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Kenyan author and dissident who became a giant of modern literature, dies at 87
“He evoked for me, an unforgettable picture of a peasant revolt in a white-dominated ... Jane Austen, George Eliot, Dickens, D.H. Lawrence.” By the late 1960s, he had embraced Marxism, dropped ...
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Kenyan author and dissident who became a giant of modern literature, dies at 87
“He evoked for me, an unforgettable picture of a peasant revolt in a white-dominated ... Jane Austen, George Eliot, Dickens, D.H. Lawrence.” This cover image released by The New Press shows ...