RICH INTEXTUALITYIn Odinga’s Not Yet Uhuru, Ndogo finds a political icon whose imagined nation is a community of economic empowerment. In this imagined community, the ethnic group is a microcosm of the larger political community. The book tackles two of Ngugi’s autobiographical writings. In Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary, the writer, uprooted from his community, does not wilt and rather flowers as a creative. Although these writers and their ideas are presented discretely, Ndogo allows them to go into dialogue with each other.

Source: Daily Nation May 05, 2017 19:44 UTC