Kenyans pay tribute to revered author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

A neighbour and friend of Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o paid tribute to the literary giant on Thursday following his death.

Ngũgĩ, 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, died on Wednesday aged 87 in Bedford, Georgia. Whether through novels such as “The Wizard of the Crow” and “Petals of…