Ngugi composed the first modern novel in the Gikuyu language on prison toilet paper while being held by Kenyan authorities.

Mortar fire from across the LoC has once again upended life in Kashmir’s border villages, reviving haunting memories of past ...

If there ever were a Mount Rushmore of African literature, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who died on Wednesday at 87, would be one of ...

“The hedge of ashy leaves that we planted looks the same, but beyond it our homestead is a rubble of burned dry mud, splinters of wood, and grass,” he wrote in a memoir, “In the House of the ...

Forty years ago today, the city was reshaped in many ways by the storm's fury, killing eight people and causing millions of ...

The body of a man and a dog were found in the rubble after a powerful explosion leveled a home in a Kansas City, Missouri, ...

Well, Mother Nature’s not messing around. The Swiss village of Blatten just took a direct hit after a hulking slab of the Birch glacier decided to call it quits and crash into the valley below.

In his brief final testament, Pope Francis asked to be buried at Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major and said he had offered his suffering for peace in the world.