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Ngugi wa Thiong’o for the Nobel ?

 

By Nairobian Stringer

Ngugi wa Thiong’o is East Africa’s greatest living writer, and one of Africa’s top five. And since 2010, the man whose books were banned by the government, but one – The River Between – is now part of literature syllabus, has once again been tipped as one of the top five nominees for the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature – if not the presumed winner, already.

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