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Makerere University College

This institution in Kampala, Uganda hosted a 1962 conference called “A Conference of African Writers of English Expression” which the author describes in detail.

Kamĩrĩĩthũ

This is the rural village where the author joined in establishing a cultural center and worked to produce an integrative play.

University of Nairobi

This institution is where the author worked as a professor of literature before his arrest and detainment.

Kamitu Maximum Security Prison

This is the location where the author was detained in 1978.

Kenya National Theatre

This institution is described by the author as primarily expatriate-controlled. It continued, even after independence, throughout the fifties and sixties, to produce American and British plays.

Weep Not, Child

This is the first novel by the author, published in 1964.

Petals of Blood

This was the last novel that the author wrote in the English language. His subsequent novels have been translated...

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