Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o at the Texas Book Festival
October 28, 2018
- 1:30 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
Capitol Extension Room E2.014
1100 Congress Avenue,
Austin TX
When writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was imprisoned in Kenya's Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, he made a conscious effort to fight back against the humiliation and spiritual degradation by writing. At the festival, he will share his memoir Wrestling with the Devil, and his unforgettable chronicle of the year this brilliant novelist and memoirist, long favored for the Nobel Prize, was thrown in a Kenyan jail without charge. Moderator: Mary Helen Specht.
