Literature: Kenyan creator Ngugi Wa Thiong´o died on the age of 87 | EUROtoday

Literature: Kenyan creator Ngugi Wa Thiong´o died on the age of 87
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The Kenyan author Ngugi Wa Thiong´o died within the US state of Georgia on the age of 87. This was confirmed by a spokeswoman for his Kenyan writer East African Educational Publishing in Nairobi. The Thiong´o, who died on Wednesday, was one of the crucial well-known African authors, who was repeatedly traded as a potential candidate for the Nobel Literature Prize.

Because of his essential works, he had to enter exile throughout the reign of Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi and initially lived in Great Britain, later within the USA. A return to Kenia solely took a short while.

Giant of African literature

Some books of Thiong´OS have additionally been revealed in German, corresponding to “Lord of the Krows”, “Burned Blossoms” or “Dreams in times of war”. He wrote his books and items, which had been quickly prohibited in Kenya, in English and in his mom tongue Kikuyu.

Thiong´o was thought of an advocate of the African mom tongues and a decolonization of tradition. He was due to this fact not solely acknowledged as a large of African literature, but additionally as a voice of Pan Africanism throughout his lifetime. In his books, he criticized African dictators and the oppression of oppositional voices.

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