ART & CULTURE
Across East Africa, literature has never been merely an art form — it has been a vessel of memory, resistance, and imagination. From Kenya’s colonial twilight to the unhealed echoes of Somalia, Uganda, and Ethiopia, the written word became a second independence movement — one fought in classrooms, in exile, and through languages that refused […]
ART & CULTURE
There are stories that speak — and then there are stories that sing. West Africa’s literary tradition belongs firmly in the latter category. Every line, every rhythm, carries the cadence of the continent’s oldest griots — storytellers who kept memory alive long before ink met paper. Across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, these voices have […]
ART & CULTURE
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, a towering figure in African literature and a passionate advocate for writing in native African languages, has died at the age of 87. His literary career, spanning over six decades, chronicled Kenya’s journey from colonial rule to independence and beyond. Early Life and Influences Born James Thiong’o Ngũgĩ in 1938 in Limuru, […]