Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Kenyan author and dissident who became a giant of modern literature, dies at 87

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This 2010 image released by UC Irvine shows Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. (Daniel A. Anderson/UC Irvine via AP)

He was a perennial candidate for the Nobel literature prize and a long-term artist in exile.

Originally published at Associated Press