ngugi wa thiongo

After the storm: a letter home from a friend

OPINION

By any standard definition, I am not a Kenyan. In recent days, though, I certainly have been in spirit. Physically, I am oceans away, but four days of savagery at Westgate this week served only to draw me closer.

After the storm: a letter home from a friend

By By Paul Dziatkowiec | 7 years ago

Why Ngugi’s historic realism is contestable

Ngugi’s fictional rendition of the realities of colonial Kenya in general and the Mau Mau war in particular is commendable but contestable. Kenyan national narrative is rich and told by people from all walks of life.

By Mahat Hassan | 8 years ago

Ngugi’s attackers sentenced to hang

Three men who attacked writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o and his wife, Njeeri, eight years ago have been sentenced to hang.

| 9 years ago

Convict awaits appeal four years later

A man sentenced to death four years ago for robbing novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o is still waiting to have his appeal heard. Peter Mulati Wafula, who was also jailed for 21 years for sodomising Prof Ngugi’s wife Njeeri, has been waiting since December 2005 to get typed proceedings of the trial.

| 11 years ago