Thiong’o was admired worldwide, including by authors John Updike and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and by former President Barack ...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, the revered Kenyan man of letters and voice of dissent who in dozens of fiction and nonfiction books traced his country's history from British imperialism to home-ruled tyranny and ...

Uhuru Kenyatta received me at the State House,’” Ngũgĩ later told The Penn Review. “Writing is that which I have to do. Storytelling. I see life through stories. Life itself is one big ...

Guiseppi, who will turn 28 this summer, lives at the zoo's Family Farm. As a zoo ambassador, he's a regular in education ...