Ngugi, The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (a play): Kenya, Mau Mau

Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Micere Githae Mugo, The Trial of Dedan Kimathi. Nairobi: Heinemann, 1989.

18.5 x 12 cm, card wraps, 85 pages.

Text browned. Good condition.

'NGUGI WA THIONG'O, though best known as a novelist, is also a prolific playwright whose published plays include This Tomorrow and The Black Hermit. His four novels: Weep Not, Child, The River Between, A Grain of Wheat and Petals of Blood, have been widely read in Kenya and throughout the world in English and in translation. His latest play, Ngaahika Ndeenda, co-authored with Ngugi wa Mirii, is due to be published soon in Gikuyu, Kiswahili and English. Until his detention, Ngugi was Chairman of the Literature Department at the University of Nairobi. 

'DR MICERE GITHAE MUGO has been writing since 1962. Some of her work has featured on BBC and has been published in several magazines and journals of Literature. The East African Literature Bureau has published a collection of her poetry, Daughter of My People, Sing a play, The Long Illness of ex-Chief Kiti and a book on criticism, Visions of Africa. Micere Githae Mugo has been involved in the Theatre since she was eight. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Literature Department at the University of Nairobi.'

'Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, born James Ngugi; (5 January 1938 28 May 2025) was a Kenyan author and academic, who has been described as East Africa's leading novelist and an important figure in modern African literature.' (Wikipedia)