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From being banned from staging his iconic play Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want) to writing his first Kikuyu novel on toilet paper while in detention, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has endured political persecution and a cancer diagnosis to become a towering figure in African literature. Theo Macharia explores how his work reshaped Kenyan and African literary discourse, leaving a lasting legacy.
NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O: A LITERARY GIANT’S ENDURING LEGACY
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