A few weeks ago, The Guardian published a lenghty article after a Kenyan journalist, Carey Baraka, spent three days with literary giant Ngugi wa Thiong'o at his home in the suburbs of California, in the US.
Predictably, almost all the fuss on social media was about the impending divorce of the Kenyan literature icon from Mary Njeeri, his wife of three decades, and his benign medical condition in the US.
