{"id":143378,"date":"2025-05-29T07:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T07:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/celebrated-kenyan-author-and-dissident-ngugi-wa-thiongo-dies-aged-87\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T07:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T07:49:10","slug":"celebrated-kenyan-author-and-dissident-ngugi-wa-thiongo-dies-aged-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/celebrated-kenyan-author-and-dissident-ngugi-wa-thiongo-dies-aged-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrated Kenyan author and dissident Ng\u0169g\u0129 wa Thiong\u2019o dies aged 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Widely regarded as east Africa&#8217;s most influential writer, Ng\u0169g\u0129\u2019s fiction and nonfiction books traced his country&#8217;s history from British imperialism to home-ruled tyranny and challenged not only the stories told but the language used to tell them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/05\/29\/celebrated-kenyan-author-and-dissident-ngugi-wa-thiongo-dies-aged-87\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Widely regarded as east Africa&#8217;s most influential writer, Ng\u0169g\u0129\u2019s fiction and nonfiction books traced his country&#8217;s history from British imperialism to home-ruled tyranny and challenged not only the stories told but the language used to tell them. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":143379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}