₦airaland Forum

Rest on Prof. Ngugi

Your book titled "Weep Not Child" was indeed a top notch. It showcased how Africans were suffering and proffered ways of liberation...

'The river between" is the best amongst all his works. That novel is something else.

I still remember Weep not, Child and The River Between as some of his most outstanding books. Rest in peace, prof. You shaped our thoughts with your literature.

Agbegbaorogboye:
I think this man wrote the beautiful ones are not yet born if I remember correctly
Funny though three phrase is common but most don't know it's a book title

Nope.
Kwei Armah from Ghana.
A living legend.

RIP legend, as a student of history I heard alot about him

Starboytwo:
Gen z keh baba. Na my sister be Gen Z.

na em be say u no gree read book when u Dey secondary school.This ngugi,mariama Ba.were some writers that nobody below 38 shouldn’t know.e be like u go join cult when we Dey read o

Walai:
Weep not child
Ngugi Wa Thiongo
Zambia shall be free
Kenneth Kaunda
Long Walk to freedom
Nelson Mandela
Books that made me
This generation don't read again, the knowledge gap keeps widening. So sad

Rest in peace Sir

Toads for supper ,Madness of Didi，Bottled Leopard-Prof.Chukwuemeka Ike
African Child，Beautiful Ones are not yet born

African Writers Series!

I need to go back to active reading.

This TikTok generation is missing alot.

Lol!

You are immersed in reading!

If not for getting updated informations from news platforms and newsletters like vanguard, guardian...etc, i would have been reading physical books. I read dem though, sometimes!

placeofallure:
I fell in love with reading anything from my primary school days. I read anything that is a book!

I was reading this D. O. Fagunwa's book. I think I was in 100 level or so. I've been reading it for a while. One of the days, I was alone and reading in my room. The author was a maestro at using descriptive words to bring events to life. You'd be transported into the world of the story, such that you're almost one of the characters tagging along with the others in the story. You'd imagine things in your mind's eye... I was reading and was in this state when fear overwhelmed me by the gripping scene the author was painting. I got so scared that I smashed the book against the wall, and ran out as fast as my legs could carry me. I couldn't enter the house again until I got company. I later finished the book, but I had to encourage myself a lot to be able to do that.

Such writing prowess! I couldn't bring myself to read Soyinka's translation though. I got busier.

Rest in peace, Sir Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

African novels are so great. But what about European novels? I think i didnt witness the opportunity to read more foreign writings.

The only novel i was addicted to and read more than 20-times is purple hibiscus. I was hooked and drowned into the book. The emotions were too strong!

fergie001:
SOURCE

=>https://news.radio47.fm/2025/05/28/celebrated-kenyan-author-ngugi-wa-thiongo-dies-at-87/



It's CLEARLY the end of another major cycle in human history.

The legendary Kenyan (in the mould of the global citizen and Nigerian Godfather, Professor 'Wole Soyinka) Prof. James Ngugi wa Thiong'o has finally left the physical world.

"Weep Not, Child," "The River Between," "Petals of Blood," "Devil on the Cross," etc, are truly groundbreaking global literary works. It's refreshing to still have some of his books in my personal home library collections as well.


My deep condolences go to his immediate fam and the people of Kenya where he hails from.

bfn1:
J.F Ọdúnjọ's Aláwìíyé (in several series - ìwé kìíní, ìwé kejì, etc)?! Wow! You're an old man. Lols.

I'm a Gen X so I'm quite old. The Alawiye book I enjoyed most were the ones from book 4 to 6. Wonder if they still recommend such books these days in our schools.

Angelfrost:
Yeah... Good old days.

Social media is taking intellectual conversations down the drain.

You can say that again buddy. Those of us from that generation are the smartest ones now because we still read and do research and go for knowledge.

Bankowner:
Did you read "Sangba Fo" by Akinlade Kola?
He is less known, but that book is dope. I was captivated to the very end even though I hated reading Yoruba.

Yes, I heard about it, and I also remember it being read out across some weekly episodes of a radio program where the presenter would read chapters of a Yoruba story book until the end. I can still add it to my bucket list though.

AngelahFlo:
I'm a Gen X so I'm quite old. The Alawiye book I enjoyed most were the ones from book 4 to 6. [b]Wonder if they still recommend such books these days in our school[/b]s.

I really doubt the bolded part. Maybe it's still being used in some public schools, but I’m not so sure

Can you recall this?
Ọ̀bẹ Bàbá bọ́;
Ó bá ọ̀bọ Ọba;
A óò bá Bàbá bẹ Ọba...

colossus91:
Soyinka is overrated

A Nobel Prize Winner is overrated?

See comment

Metrofox:
Weep not child.. these are the real literature giants not one bear bear gbajue prof

Na Nobel Prize winner you dey yab

Who sabi you

TrainPark:
Soyinka don turn politician... just hair remain for him head, no sense

They are talking about his works

He is a Nobel Prize winner. You expect him to still write in 2025? To impress you? Who you be?

EvilMerodack:
They are talking about his works

He is a Nobel Prize winner. You expect him to still write in 2025? To impress you? Who you be?

Who cares about his writing if he is morally fluid?

He has destroyed his legacy with tribal jingoism when he selectively calls out leaders that are not from his tribe.

If you know the history of how he went to collect/ betray that Nobel prize even when all other African writers had agreed to boycott the Nobel prize ceremony in protest of the apartheid in South Africa then you will understand my context about his morality!

I am expecting a moderator to ban my response because I have called soyinka out for moral inconsistency!

bfn1:
I really doubt the bolded part. Maybe it's still being used in some public schools, but I’m not so sure

Can you recall this?
Ọ̀bẹ Bàbá bọ́;
Ó bá ọ̀bọ Ọba;
A óò bá Bàbá bẹ Ọba...

Yeah
You just brought a smile to my face with a recollection of this memory. This was the opening page I think of Alawiye Book 1. I remember it so much cos our teacher made us do a recital on it like a song. Bros you just took me to a place in time. Years back.