Kenya’s Dissident
Victoria Brittain, 3 June 1982
Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary
by Ngugi waThiongo.
Heinemann, 232 pp., £7.50, June 1981,9780435906504 Show More
by Ngugi waThiongo.
Heinemann, 232 pp., £7.50, June 1981,
Writers in Politics
by Ngugi waThiongo.
Heinemann, 320 pp., £6.95, June 1981,0 435 91752 8 Show More
by Ngugi waThiongo.
Heinemann, 320 pp., £6.95, June 1981,
Ake: The Years of Childhood
by Wole Soyinka.
Rex Collings, 230 pp., £7.50, August 1981,0 86036 155 1 Show More
by Wole Soyinka.
Rex Collings, 230 pp., £7.50, August 1981,
“... mist, as they headed down the narrow path churned into mud by the police truck which had brought Ngugi waThiongo home from the year in detention where he produced these books. Finding his house among the muddy maize plots north of Limuru, 20 miles from Nairobi, was easy: a single telephone-wire crossed the ... ”
