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A very powerful book. Ngugi wa Thiong'o focuses on the village of Thabai prior to Independence Day in Kenya or "Uhuru". The villagers have not come through the war for independence unscathed either mentally or physically and perilous times of being pressured by British Colonial containment policies aimed at eliminating the Mau Mau have only forced villagers to take sides. wa Thiong'o doesn't shy away from the morally ambiguous decisions that many are faced with and to my mind this is the core of
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Oct 05, 2015
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