Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Wins the 2019 Erich-Maria-Remarque Peace Prize, for His Important Representation of Independence Through Language

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has been awarded the 2019 Erich-Maria-Remarque Peace Prize, worth €25,000, “chiefly with regard to his enlightening anti-colonialist topics, his reference to traditional African theatre and narrative art and his advocacy of the preservation of his mother tongue as a mark of identification,” with the jury further describing him as “an important representative […]