Sometime in the early 1990s, I had a long conversation with a man who was a close confidante of a former political prisoner.
He gave me a detailed account of what his friend had gone through barely 18 months ago, and what it was like to sleep on a cold cement floor with only a single bedbug-ridden blanket to cover yourself with. How some prison warders were sympathetic but others did not bother to conceal their immense pleasure at being able to humiliate a man who had dared oppose the government of President Daniel Moi.
...
AllAfrica Subscription Content
You must be an allAfrica.com subscriber for full access to certain content.
You have selected an article from the AllAfrica archive, which requires a subscription. You can subscribe by visiting our subscription page. Or for more information about becoming a subscriber, you can read our subscription and contribution overview.
For information about our premium subscription services:
You can also freely access - without a subscription - hundreds of today's top Africa stories and thousands of recent news articles from our home page »
Already a subscriber? Sign in for full access to article