Kenya: The Return of a Lost Idealist

opinion

Nairobi — Revolutionary, rebel, intellectual, radical, thinker, and probably, a sage. Witty, honest, articulate, truthful, confident, prudent, steadfast and unwavering.

The list of kind words that Prof Ngugi wa Thiong'o's critics, scholars, former students, friends and foes use to describe him is many times longer than that of his novels, plays and journals.

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