Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o at the Bay Area Book Festival
April 28, 2018
- 11:45 a.m.
The Freight & Salvage
2020 Addison St.,
Berkeley CA

In 1977, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was taken prisoner by the Kenyan government. For nearly a year, he was held in a maximum security facility as a political prisoner, all because of his artistic defiance of a regime. It was in this prison, under ceaseless surveillance, that he penned a novel—on toilet paper. Following the U.S. release of his memoir, Wrestling with the Devil, Ngũgĩ will recount this fateful experience and the lasting effect it had on his literary art (which has frequently put him on the radar for the Nobel Prize).