Pipe-Dreams
Rob Nixon, 4 April 1996
A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary
by Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Penguin, 256 pp., £6.99, December 1995,9780140258684 Show More
by Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Penguin, 256 pp., £6.99, December 1995,
“... anti-neo-colonialism – has been inseparable from their socialism. One thinks, for instance, of Ngugi wa Thiong’ o’s Barrel of the Pen and Mafika Gwala’s essay, ‘Writing as a Cultural Weapon’ (the credo for a generation of South African writers). Saro-Wiwa was unusual in cultivating an international sensibility and stood aside from the ... ”