Ngugi Wa Thiongo Archives

The Onoge Shock

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: ABU, African Literature, Chinua Achebe, Harvard, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Prof Abiola Irele, Prof Omafume Onoge, Prof Victor Adetula, UI, UNIBEN, UNIFE, UNIJOS, UNILAG, UNNNo CommentsViews:

I have heard a huge share of the stuff he was made of, including his articulation of the Aiyetoro community as a socialist entity in a thesis to Harvard University, at a time positivism was... Read more

Tunani Initiative Sets About Reviving the Civic Space in Nigeria Through Literature

Posted By: adminon: May 23, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: #EndSARS, Achebe, Arts, Ben Okri, Civic space, Cold War, Dele Farotimi, Judiciary, King of Boys, Literature, Military rule, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Niger military junta, Niyi Osundare, Rarara, Soyinka, Tunani Initiative, ‘Very Dark Man’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja What literature can do in the meaning – action nexus whenever and wherever a particular meaning of a literary text is made consensual makes a book club such as Tunani I... Read more

Updated: Ngugi Wa Thiongo and Boubacar Boris Diop Set Radical Decolonial Agenda for President Diomaye Faye of Senegal

Posted By: adminon: May 14, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Boubacar Boris Diop, Kikuyu, Kwame Nkrumah, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Ousmane Sembene, Sheikh Amidou Kane, WolofNo CommentsViews:

This piece is being reposted without any changes except to correct the grammatical blunder in the headline which has brought Intervention relentless bashing over the night. Thank you all who... Read more

Updated: Towards the Barrister Titus Mann Moment?

Posted By: adminon: May 08, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Darius Dauda Angwa, Decoloniality, Ganawuri, Jurisprudence, Mignolo, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, ShakespeareNo CommentsViews:

The good news from the Ganawuri community in Jos, Plateau State of Nigeria is that the mother of Titus Mann has been successfully buried. The event which took place Saturday, May 4th, 2024 m... Read more

Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution - A Review

There are two reasons against publishing this article. One, it is too long. Two, it will confuse those who are not already at home with the different domains of Marxism and decoloniality. Bu... Read more

Salihu Mohammed Bappa: A Bridge Across Many Divides

Posted By: adminon: January 13, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', Christianisation, Gindiri, Guerrilla theatre, Islamisation, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Theatre for Development, UINo CommentsViews:

By Professor Oga Steve Abah* Ladies and Gentlemen, it is a humbling experience for me to stand here on this Memorial event to talk about a colleague I knew and worked with for decades. It is... Read more

Emotions, Encomium and Revelations @ Memorial Lecture for Cde Salihu Bappa

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', Bala Mohammed, Bauchi humanism, Christianisation, Gindiri, Guerrilla theatre, Ibrahim Tahir, Islamisation, NEPU, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Sa’adu Zungur, Theatre for Development, UI, Wole Soyinka, ‘radical tradition in Northern Nigeria’No CommentsViews:

The initial headline for this story has to be amended because of a deluge of protests from observant cartographers of contemporary nationhood in Nigeria who point out that Intervention has c... Read more

Are Political Science Departments Failing to Aid Democracy?

Posted By: adminon: March 27, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Botswana, Democracy in Africa, Department of Government, Ghana, Julius Nyerere, Kenya, Kwame Nkrumah, Mandela, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Okot p’Bitek, Political Science, Thomas Sankara, Zimbabwe, ‘Rhodes Must Fall’No CommentsViews:

As is always the case and without being chauvinistic there, Nigeria tends to flash the signal or sound the alarm. On February 9th, 2018, it did so when an event on democracy turned into a cl... Read more

Abdulrazak Gurnah, Not Ngugi Wa Thiongo!

Posted By: adminon: October 12, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Chimamanda Adichie, Egypt, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Nuruddin Fara, US, Wole SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:

The Africans, however defined, have their own idea of which African writer should win the Nobel Prize on Literature. The Swedish Academy which decides who wins have their own idea of which A... Read more

Slavery Has Left Africans Stranded – Prof Chima Anyadike (2)

Posted By: adminon: September 10, 2019In: People in ActionTags: (Atlantic) Slave Trade, CHINA, Chinua Achebe, Decolonisation, English, French, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, PortugueseNo CommentsViews:

The first part of this interview published on this platform September 9th was titled “Unless We Decolonise Our Minds, Freedom is Far – Chima Anyadike, Retiring OAU, Ile-Ife Professor”. The t... Read more