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Author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. [File, Standard]
I stand corrected. The fete surrounding the inauguration of the Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Cultural and Arts Centre in Limuru is slated for August 29, and it’s free and open to the public, a family spokesperson has clarified. The error is regretted.
One of the most prominent authors to emerge from the continent, Ngũgĩ died last May at the age of 87, after a long illness. His expansive oeuvre comprising fiction, non-fiction, essays and criticism places him at the pantheon of world literature.
Ngũgĩ went into exile while on a month-long book tour in England in 1982, which expanded to a 40-year sojourn abroad. A brief homecoming in July 2004 ended in tragedy, after he and his wife were brutally attacked.
