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This book (277pg) by Kenyan marxist Ngugi wa Thiong'o takes place after the end of the Mau Mau struggle. The book follows certain people and shows how they were affected by the "state of emergency" that the british colonialists declared during the Mau Mau struggle.

This play (117pg) by Kenyan leftist writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o was written after the "flag independence" (Nkrumah's term) from Britain. Ngugi often mentions the Mau Mau, which was the violent, revolutionary anti-imperialist resistance group which forced the british to leave Kenya (during which the british committed countless atrocities, including the execution of Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi, and the mass imprisonment of "sympathizers" in concentration camps, as well as routine and wide use of torture). But of course the british imperialists did not hand over control of the country to the revolutionary resistance made up of peasants and workers (i.e. the Mau Mau), but to un-radical/anti-radical "politicians" like Jomo Kenyatta, who had nothing to do with the Mau Mau (who liberated the country!).