内容摘要：That more than 20 years later there are still safety improvement calls, she said, is disappointing.

That more than 20 years later there are still safety improvement calls, she said, is disappointing.

Throughout his career - and to this day - African literature was dominated by books written in English or French, official languages in most countries on the continent."What is the difference between a politician who says Africa cannot do without imperialism and the writer who says Africa cannot do without European languages?" Ngũgĩ asked in a seminal, fiery essay collection, named Decolonising the Mind.

In one section, Ngũgĩ called out Chinua Achebe - the author who helped to launch his career - for writing in English. Their friendship soured as a result.Away from his literary career, Ngũgĩ was married - and divorced - twice. He had nine children, four of whom are published authors."My own family has become one of my literary rivals," Ngũgĩ joked in a 2020

His son, Mukoma wa Ngũgĩ, has alleged that his mother was physically abused by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o."Some of my earliest memories are me going to visit her at my grandmother’s where she would seek refuge," his son wrote in a social media post, which Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o did not respond to.

Later in his life, Ngũgĩ's health deteriorated. He had triple heart bypass surgery in 2019 and began to struggle with kidney failure. In 1995, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and given three months to live.

Ngũgĩ recovered, however, adding cancer to the lengthy list of struggles he had overcome.A Sky Documentaries series in 2023 interviewed detectives involved with the 1995 case who were critical of the original police investigation.

Former Met Police detective David McKelvey claimed "credible lines of investigation were not followed" and that the assassination was related to an armed robbery, not drug dealing.Essex Police previously said the case was "exhaustively examined" and there was no fresh evidence to dispute the original verdicts.

Passengers travelling on the Isle of Man's fast craft have been warned all of its of the weekend's sailings will all be with a two hour delay.Sailings of the Manannan between Douglas and Liverpool, Heysham and Belfast have will all set off later than originally scheduled until Sunday.