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In the Endless Sameness of Prison, Writing Kept Me Human
"Paper, Any Paper, is About the Most Precious Article for a Political Prisoner"
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
| March 28, 2018
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The College Years
"I was benefiting from a history that had come to negate my history"
By
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
| October 12, 2016
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