The Standard Group Plc is a multi-media organization with investments in media
platforms spanning newspaper print
operations, television, radio broadcasting, digital and online services. The
Standard Group is recognized as a
leading multi-media house in Kenya with a key influence in matters of national
and international interest.
January 5, 2023, marked the 85th birthday of arguably Kenya's foremost man of letters, Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
Born James Ngugi in 1938, in Kamiriithu, Kiambu County, he is Kenya and East Africa's most venerable author, with a rich literary oeuvre that spans novels, plays, short stories, essays and children's books.
In a decades-long career that first began during his time as a college student at Makerere University, Uganda (where he went for his undergraduate studies), in the early 1960s, Prof Ngugi is artistically famed for his literary iconoclasm and social criticism.
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