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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