Beyond tributes: Kenya's unfinished duty to Ngugi wa Thiong'o

On Friday, June 20, 2025, we gathered at the University of Nairobi’s main campus where, at the iconic Taifa Hall, the family of the late writer and scholar Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the university’s Literature Department under Professor Miriam Musonye, and East African Educational Publishers co-organised a day-long celebration of the life and work of the man of letters, who had died in the United States in late May aged 87.