Lamu in Kenya has the dreamlike quality of an acid trip with a candy-pink minaret of the main mosque rising over coralline houses ...
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Kelvin Kiptum had the world at his feet. Then it all ended in an instant ...
In a bookstore in Kenya's capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who died Wednesday in the United States.
Steve Foreman, 73, was living and working on an oil rig in Ogaden, Ethiopia when he collapsed and had to be airlifted to the nearest hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.
Ngugi's work critiqued both British colonialism in Kenya and postcolonial Kenyan society.
Mr. Ngugi composed the first modern novel in the Gikuyu language on prison toilet paper while being held by Kenyan authorities. He spent many prolific years in exile.
The Kenyan author and political dissident, a giant of African literature and champion of indigenous African languages, died aged 87.
The Kenyan man of letters wrote dozens of fiction and nonfiction books that traced his country's history from British imperialism to home-ruled tyranny and challenged not only the stories told but the language used to tell them.
Kenyan writer's death announced by his daughter, who wrote: 'He lived a full life, fought a good fight'
An Indigenous social worker from Canada and a social entrepreneur from Kenya are the laureates of the 2025 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize, the United Nations announced on Wednesday.