the issue and lile shippwners Cunningham, Port organise NGUGI WA THIONG'O Perils Kenya. NEWS HAS Just come that Ngugi wa Thiong'o, well of has been arrested by the Kenyatta Head of the Departent of Literature at the University of Nairobi, Ngugi bas monde a name for himself in Kenya and internationally, field of literature and as a Recently, a Kikuyu play co-authored Ngahika Ndenda ('l'Il marry when you want") performed for the first time in Limuni, pear Nairohi, While 1 am not familiar with the play. il is obious that, as in his other works, Ngugi has not retrained from taking known and bis critique of the regime (this tume not in English, but in his own tongue). After its tirst performance in Kiambo, the play was banned.
On New Year's Eve, police surrounded his house and TOSAISEINTE OVER LU books. He has been under and has been refused the right to see anyane, including bis wite Nyambura This is the latest in a series of arrests of left wing opposition ists of the Kenvatta reRime Odinga nationalist leader and founder of the banned Kenya People's Union) was arrested after a speech on the question of land These arrests are not only an NINCE DE E SETENAY TESLTILILL democratic rights in Kenya.
awarcness by the noacolonial rushe class of the crumhne o its credibility among the masses. Its response is likely to be ever more brutal repression against all formas of opposition to its and imperialism's rule in Kenya.
It is urgent bat Socichis Challenge readers in Britain mediarely a campaign relense gagi, Odinga, and ail polirical prisomery in Kenya We in Kenya rev on thi support: the rights in Kenya make a local campaign mot just difficult, bar dangerous.