{"id":162450,"date":"2025-05-29T18:11:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/05\/29\/tributes-to-acclaimed-african-literature-giant-ngugi-wa-thiongo\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T18:11:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:11:44","slug":"tributes-to-acclaimed-african-literature-giant-ngugi-wa-thiongo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/05\/29\/tributes-to-acclaimed-african-literature-giant-ngugi-wa-thiongo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes to acclaimed African literature giant Ng\u0169g\u0129 wa Thiong\u2019o"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In tonight\u2019s edition, Mauritania\u2019s former finance minister takes the African Development Bank&rsquo;s top job.<\/p>\n<p>Also, in Ghana, the cedi soars over 40% against the dollar,\u00a0helping the country slash its foreign debt and outpace its regional peers.<\/p>\n<p>And tributes are pouring in for Kenyan writer\u00a0Ngugi wa Thiong&rsquo;o who has died at the age of 87.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In tonight\u2019s edition, Mauritania\u2019s former finance minister takes the African Development Bank&rsquo;s top job. Also, in Ghana, the cedi soars over 40% against the dollar,\u00a0helping the country slash its foreign debt and outpace its regional peers. And tributes are pouring in for Kenyan writer\u00a0Ngugi wa Thiong&rsquo;o who has died at the age of 87.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-162450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}