I Will Marry When I Wantwork by Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Ngugi wa Mirii

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  • discussed in biography of Ngugi wa Thiong’o ( in Ngugi wa Thiong’o )

    ...cowritten with Micere Githae Mugo, is considered by some critics to be his best. He was also coauthor, with Ngugi wa Mirii, of a play first written in Kikuyu, Ngaahika Ndeenda (1977; I Will Marry When I Want), the performance of which led to his detention for a year without trial by the Kenyan government. (His book Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary, which was published...

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