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Writer took our story to globe, but, in defiance not submission

The death of Ngugi wa Thiong'o marks the closing chapter of an extraordinary era-an era when literature was not mere art, but ammunition; when the University of Nairobi was not just a place of academic instruction, but a bastion of ideological revolution; when writers wrote not just to entertain, but to liberate.

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