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Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o has died, his daughter announced on Wednesday evening. With his focus on post-colonial identity, he was considered one of East Africa’s greatest literary figures. <\/em><\/p>\n “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our dad, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, this Wednesday morning,” Wanjiku Wa Ngugi wrote on Facebook. “He lived a full life, fought a good fight.”<\/p>\n Messages of support and respect quickly poured in for the celebrated author, whose decision to stop writing in…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o has died, his daughter announced on Wednesday evening. With his focus on post-colonial identity, he was considered one of East Africa’s greatest literary figures. “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our dad, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, this Wednesday morning,” Wanjiku Wa Ngugi wrote on Facebook. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":199073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00271096:0fe4fb116bb6900b87e59402a8de0aa5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,23230,13931,6868,10414,4688,430,4524,9349,257,15281,254,15282,44323],"class_list":["post-199072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aged","tag-author","tag-dies","tag-giant","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-letters","tag-news","tag-ngugi","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thiongo","tag-towering"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00271096:0fe4fb116bb6900b87e59402a8de0aa5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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