Why Ngugi wa Thiong'o never won Nobel Prize for Literature

Renowned Kenyan author Prof Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. [File, Standard]

The Nobel Prize in Literature is the one globally coveted award that Ngugi wa Thiong’o did not achieve. Ngugi, who died this week, was a paradox. He was at once iconic and iconoclastic.

Did these two contradictions possibly contribute to his missing out on the Nobel?  

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