The literary world bids farewell to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, one of the great thinkers and storytellers of the 20th and 21st century. A Kenyan writer born in 1938, he dedicated his work to questioning the legacies of colonialism and reclaiming African identity from its linguistic roots. With titles such as The Devil on the Cross and Decolonising the Mind, he became a central figure in committed literature, fusing literary creation with political and cultural activism.
Beyond his academic prestige - he was a professor at universities such as Yale and California - Ngũgĩ marked a milestone by deciding to abandon English and write in Kikuyu, his mother tongue, as an act of resistance. His legacy lives on in a commitment to an Africa that speaks in its own voices, and in a body of work that transcends borders to remind us that language, memory and justice go hand in hand.
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