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The passing of the Kenyan writer marks the end of a remarkable era when African writers stormed the world stage. Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images

Ngũgi wa Thiong’o and the African literary revolution

Simon Gikandi, Princeton University

From the late 1950s a new generation of African writers challenged colonial systems and used their work to imagine a new world.

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