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Twelfth Night review – Lupita Nyong’o and Peter Dinklage anchor fun, if thin, production

Delacorte Theater, New York

A slick, starry cast, also including Sandra Oh and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, bring a lively yet overly abbreviated outdoor take on the comedy to life

New York’s most famous venu…

Decolonizing Language by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o review – final words of literary giant

An exhilarating collection distills the late writer’s thinking on power, exile and the importance of the mother tongue

On 17 July 1979, the great Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o gave a speech in Nai…

4 months ago

Diverse, communal, gender-fluid: African families’ true history is being whitewashed | Wambui Kimani

Rightwing moralists are pushing the nuclear family as the ideal path. But this is a neo-colonial mindset that is truly unAfrican

Growing up on the Kenyan coast in a household filled with aunties and …

8 months ago

Swahili? Mandarin? The UK is increasingly multilingual – yet our politicians won’t talk about it | Laura Spinney

Even the census ignores them, but multilinguals could hold the key to Britain’s social and economic future

  • Laura Spinney is a science journalist and the author of Proto: How One Ancient Language went …

9 months ago

Novelist Eimear McBride: studying method acting taught me how to write

Three years at the notorious Drama Centre London helped the author of A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing understand how to create a character from the inside out

Making a person is no mean feat – especiall…

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