Ngugi wa Thiong’o says “let our planes fly”
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At a public lecture on June 11 at the University of Nairobi, Kenyan literary giant, Ngugi wa Thiong’o told the story of Gachamaba and Charles Njonjo. Gachamba was a bicycle.....
#CULTURE_PAGE #Innovation #Kenya #Literature #Ngugi_wa_Thiong'o
Can an African language #LITERATURE prize be inherently Pan-African?
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Last month we announced the new Mabati-Cornell #Kiswahili_Prize for African Literature at the Ake Arts & Book Festival in Abeokuta, Nigeria. The prize has the express goal of recognizing #writing.....
African Writers and the 2013 #Nobel_Prize in #Literature
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As the Nobel Committee for Literature announces their chosen awardee tomorrow (1pm Swedish time), the past several weeks has been littered by quite a few notable predictions, arguments, and dream-lists. Even sports betting company Ladbrokes weighed in. Ladbrokes, btw, has #Assia_Djebar from Algeria at 12/1 odds, Ngugi wa Thiong’o at 20/1 and Nuruddin Farrah at […]
#BOOKS #J_M_Coetzee #Nadine_Gordimer #Ngugi_wa_Thiong'o #Nuruddin_Farah #Wole_Soyinka #Yvonne_Vera