Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, Volume 10Nairobi, 1981 - 232 pages The international outcry over the detention of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o without trial by the Kenyan authorities even reached him in prison. In this book he describes the purposeful degradation and humiliation of prison life. |
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