Decolonizing the Mind
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The Rise and Fall of James Engogiwafyungo
Kenyan novelist Engogiwafyungo was arrested on New Year's Eve 1977. He'd written and staged a successful play, which slammed the ruling elites. The difference this time was that he wrote in his mother tongue,. Gakuyu, not English. And how a remarkable act of defiance became one of the defining events in modern African literature.
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