However, the ongoing global pandemic occasioned by the new coronavirus has brought out another dimension of his literary prowess: poetry. (www.brittlepaper.com)It can be argued that Ngugi’s new flirtation with poetry lies in his associations with poets over the years. These poets may have left an indelible mark on Ngugi and perhaps inspired him towards poetry ultimately. Since the 1970s, the Caribbean poet was Ngugi’s ideological twin across the Atlantic in the Black Diaspora. From prison, both writers penned manuscripts precariously that would later be published a decade apart as Sauti ya Dhiki (1972) by Abdalla and Ngugi’s Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary (1982).

Source: The Star May 22, 2020 00:00 UTC