Author Ngugi wa Thiong’o wins major German peace prize

University of California at Irvine (UCI) Professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o just won the 2019 Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize.

Ngugi, who is currently a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English at UCI, won the literary prize for his acclaimed collection of essays, ‘Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature.”