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Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary (African Writers Series) by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary (African Writers Series) about?
The international outcry over the detention of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o without trial by the Kenyan authorities even reached him in prison. In this book he describes the purposeful degradation and humiliation of prison life.
Who reads Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary (African Writers Series)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780435902407
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Social Science, Literary Fiction, Memoir
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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