Renowned literary scholar Prof Ngugi wa Thiong'o's literary work has won Kenya and the African continent pride after many decades of ridicule from the western capitals' literary writers.
Kisii University Vice-Chancellor Prof John Akama has described Thiong'o as an African literary legend, whose literary work has not only won Kenya accolades, but also the continent whose performance in literature writing had become a laughing stock from accomplished western writers.
Speaking at the Kisii University Main Library during Thiong'o's public lecture at the Institution, Akama described Thiong'o as one of the Kenyan literature writers who have stood out as accomplished scholars, competing on the same level with literary scholars from the developed world where there was a notion that Africa was a desert without literary scholars.
“I have no doubt in my mind that Thiong'o is one of the accomplished literature writers and scholars who have come out strongly to disapprove western countries' literature scholars' notion that that Africa was a desert where there were no literary scholars who can compete with the western writers,” stated Akama.
Akama commended Thiong'o as one of the accomplished African writers and scholars, whose literary work has led to social, economic and political transformation of the society back at home, putting the African continent on the global map in terms of their well-researched literary work meant to bring change and social transformation in the society.