Famous Kenyan writer and dissident, Ngugi wa thiong’o died in 87 obituary news

Ngugi’s work criticized both British colonial and postcolonial Kenyan society in Kenya.

Well-known Kenyan writer Ngugi wa thiong’o 87-year-old family members announced.

On Wednesday, our daughter on Facebook, Ngugi Wa Thiong, our grandfather, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o is a hard heart that we announced.

“He lived a full life, a good fight,” he said.

NGUGI’s death was reported to be treated in Kidney Dialysis, but the cause of death is still unknown.

In 1938, Ngugi, born in Kenya, will be remembered as one of the most important postcolonial writers in Africa. The events formed in the early life of Ngugi, in the 1950s, were included in the War of the cruel MAU sweeping the Kenya managed by the Britain.

Ngugi’s case, the British colonial period and Kenya criticized the postcolonial society, which followed the independence in 1963. Other topics in the work covered the intersection between language, culture, history and personality.

Ngugi, in the 1970s, did a sign for himself when he decided to cross Kikuyu and Swahili without writing English.

“We all thought of him is crazy … and we thought it was courageous at the same time.” Kenyan writer David Maidlu told AFP news agency.

“We asked ourselves to receive the books.”

One of the most famous works, “Decolonize the mind”, was published in 1986 while living abroad. The book claims that the book “It is impossible to be released when using the language of the coup.”

In addition to holding the famous writer’s position, Ngugi was a prisoner of conscience. In 1977, he was arrested in Kenya because a match he considered the criticism of the modern society.

Once a new elite class of the country described the death of “deaths of hope, death and death of dreams.”

In 1982, Ngugi, in the UK, entered the unique exile in England after the theater groups and their speeches were banned. He then moved to the United States, where he worked as a professor of comparative literature at the University of California, IRVine University. Kenya continued to write a number of works, including essays, memories and novels.

News about Ngugi’s death, praising his life and work quickly appeared online.

“Well-known literary giant and scientist, Professor Ngugi Wa Thiong’o condolences to the family and friends, the son of the soil and footprints are unbelievable,” Kenya’s opposition leader Martha wrote in Martha Karua X.

“After gaining their place in the history of Kenya, I thank MWALIMU (Teacher) for the” Amnesty International Kenyan Kenya Kenyan Department “to cope with the history of freedom.

A former student of a sociologist and former Ngugi said Margaretta WA Gacheru, the author is a national icon.

“To me, a Kenyan Tolstoy, in the sense of becoming a storyteller, in the sense of the sense of language and panoramic landscape, in the sense of a story in the sense of the picture of class and class struggles.