Kenya's first President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta married four wives, Grace Wahu, Edna Clarke, Grace Wanjiku and Mama Ngina. His children included President Uhuru Kenyatta, by his fourth and youngest ...

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s eldest son, Jomo Kenyatta, is off the bachelor’s market. The bewitching maiden he has chosen to bring warmth and life in his thingira (traditional Kikuyu man’s hut ...

Thiong’o was admired worldwide, including by authors John Updike and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and by former President Barack ...

Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi has arrived in Nairobi for what the semi-autonomous region agitating for independence has termed a "strategic diplomatic visit".

Kenya has reaffirmed its commitment to Somalia's territorial integrity and unity, including semi-autonomous regions of Jubaland and Somaliland, under the Federal Government in Mogadishu.

On a bright June morning in 1963, on the steps of what is today Harambee House, Jomo Kenyatta was ceremoniously sworn in as Kenya’s first Prime Minister by Governor Malcolm MacDonald. Draped in a ...

The death of Professor Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on May 28, 2025, is not only a profound loss to the literary world but also a moment ...

Ngugi wa Thiong'o, a pioneering Kenyan writer and cultural theorist of international renown, has published several dozen books in a career spanning nearly six decades.

Kenya has blocked Somaliland's attempt to elevate its representation in Nairobi to diplomatic status, disrupting a planned office launch on Tuesday by the region's president, Abdirahman Abdullahi, who ...

In 1977, the year that Archbishop Janani Luwum was reportedly murdered by Amin’s regime, James Ngũgĩ was reborn as Ngũgĩ wa ...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, the revered Kenyan man of letters and voice of dissent who in dozens of fiction and nonfiction books ...