The great Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has passed away
Left to right, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenyan author and academic, and Handel Wright, author of this tribute to one of Africa's literary giants. Wright is a professor and director of the Centre for Culture, Identity & Education at the University of British Columbia. Wright has published extensively on African cultural studies. Read on... The great Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has passed away . Ngugi is one of the figures who made me fall in love with African literature. I read his novels in high school, and it was from "Weep Not, Child" and "A Grain of Wheat" that I first learned about Kenya. And when I later attempted to write about African cultural studies as a PhD student, his work, in general and especially his collectively authored play, "I Will Marry When I Want," and the Kamirithu Centre, were instrumental in my articulation of what African cultural studies could be. One never thinks they will actually get to meet their heroes, so I was beside ...