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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Kenyan writer
dead
no longer with us. rest easy.
- born
- 1938
- died
- 2025
- age at death
- 87
- known for
- playwright, novelist, essayist
1938 – 2025
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where this comes from
wikidata records a date of death for Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o in 2025, which is how we know. your browser re-checks this against wikidata on every visit, so it’s current even if the page itself was cached a while ago.
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