Ngugi wa Thiong'o was a young man when he wrote a book on prison-issued toilet paper. His crime: including political messages in a play he'd written. Now a distinguished professor, Ngugi wa Thiong'o joins Kojo to discuss his life, his latest novel, and his homeland of Kenya.
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Kenya's Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Listen Thursday, Sep. 14, 2006 at 1:32 p.m. in Arts & Culture, Politics
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Ngugi wa Thiongo
author, Wizard of the Crow (Pantheon); Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation, University of California, Irvine
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