Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary.
London: Heinemann, 1981, 1982. (African Writers Series).232 pages. Illustrated.
ISBN 0-435-90240-7
Kenya
Kamiti Maximum Security Prison
Well-known Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o describes his detention in December 1977 and the conditions under which he was held in Kamiti Prison along with other political prisoners. He writes of his relationships with the other prisoners and the writing of a novel in Gikuyu. He also analyses the Kenya of the time, and writes eloquently and angrily of neo-colonial culture. Detained includes letters to his wife and to the authorities, as well as correspondence relating to the struggle to get back his job in the English Department at the University of Nairobi after his release in December 1978. Ngugi was an Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience.
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