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Ngugi wa Thiong’o, radical novelist who pricked State

Novelist Ngugi Wa Thiongó after he was released from detention in 1979 [Courtesy]

There was a time when it was dangerous to think. It was even more dangerous and even suicidal to make those thoughts public.

The jubilant smile, the unknotted jet black hair and the unbuttoned double-breast chest and the polo neck t-shirt signify a measure of defiance and tell of a hope of intellectual freedom that was just about to be extinguished.

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