DETAINED -- a writer's prison diary-- Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Heinemann, 1981

Book condition: Good secondhand condition. scuffing on spine.

Paperback, 232 pages

The international outcry over the detention of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o without trial by the Kenyan authorities in 1978 even reached him in prison. In this book he describes the purposeful degradation and humiliation of prison life. On an afternoon in late December 1977, the Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiongo innocently drove by the walls of Kamiti, a high-security prison on the outskirts of Nairobi. He had a sense of foreboding, though he could not know that the following week he would be arrested by security forces and spend almost a whole year in that very penitentiary. During those endless days and nights, everything was done to break his will: solitary confinement, pressure to confess by cruel supervisors and the humiliation of being manacled while receiving medical attention.The story of how he survived that ordeal with the cunning instinct of the hunted, first published in 1982 under the title Detained, has now been revised by the author and reissued as Wrestling With the Devil

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