Renowned Kenyan author Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o has won a top German literature prize.
The writer whose works are a staple of literature in Kenyan schools won the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize for one of his seminal works Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African literature.
The book is a collection of essays that critically examines language and its role in culture and identity.
Prof Ngugi wa Thiong'o is currently a literature professor at the University of California at Irvine.
This prize adds to his bag of accolades that his works have won him.
Decolonising the Mind was published in 1986 by Heinemann Publishers, and has been cited in many scholarly works.
Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize is named after a renowned German writer who died in 1970, and is known for his 'All Quiet on the Western Front' masterpiece.
Prof Ngugi will travel to Germany, where he will receive his prize on November 29, 2019.
In his works, he has championed for social justice, and activism that saw him ruffle the feathers of the Kenyatta and Moi regimes.
He was held in detention for his novels, and had to run away to exile to escape the crackdown by the government.