We mourn the loss of a great writer, contemporary witness, promoter of African languages as languages of literature and education, a pioneering thinker on cultural decolonisation, and an open and friendly conversation partner, whom we had the privilege of meeting in May 2017 during his keynote lecture at the Department of African Studies and his public reading in the Main Library of the University of Vienna. Our thoughts are with his family, his children and grandchildren.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in Vienna, 2.-4. May 2017. In: Daworo – The Vienna African Writers’ Quarterly Newsletter
„Jede Sprache ist ein Schatz an Schönheit“.
Interview mit Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in Die Presse, 21. Mai 2017
