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The Trial of Dedan Kimathi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Micere Githae Mugo
5.0
we who struggle against exploitation and oppression, should give one another strength and faith till victory is ours.”
pg. 60
This sweet little play was written by [a:Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o|51936|Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1252353249p2/51936.jpg] while he himself was imprisoned by the Daniel Arap Moi regime. It’s a very powerful play of the legendary freedom fighter Dedan Kimathi Wa Wacuiri who led The Kenyan Land and Freedom Army and its ideals. Ngugi wrote this fictionalized trial on what Dedan should've received. But in this play Ngugi exposes the truth behind "Moneyed Justice"
Kimathi: I despise your laws and your courts. What have they done
for our people ? What ?
Protected the oppressor. Licensed the murderers of the people: Our people, whipped when they did not pick your tea leaves, your coffee beans. Imprisoned when they refused to "ayah" your babies and "boy" your houses and gardens. Murdered when they didn't rickshaw your ladies and your gentlemen.
I recognize only one law, one court: the court and the law of those who fight against exploitation,
The toilers armed to say, "We demand our freedom."
That's the eternal law of the oppressed, of the humiliated, of the injured, the insulted!
Fight! Struggle! Change!
and lessons on how neocolonial attitudes helped defund the process of true African Liberation.
Kimathi: And for only that
You kill your people?
I thought they would bribe you with more!
A share in their motor companies.
A share in their Export-Import trade,
A share in their Tourist hotels,
A share in their wheat fields
A share in their stolen wealth.
Only that?
And for a hundred shillings
And posho
And a medal
You help them murder,
You help them massacre,
You help them plunder?
You are ready to die
In the pay of imperialists?
This play deserves much more attention, in literature and theater. It has many potentials of overstanding. This books gets 8 stars from me. This short play has valuable messages.
*The Kenyan Land and Freedom Army are pieces of the truth and reason on why many people walk this land with locs including the very Rastafari livity (Youth Black Faith). Locs are revolutionary expressions of struggle and identity. Not fashion.
pg. 60
This sweet little play was written by [a:Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o|51936|Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1252353249p2/51936.jpg] while he himself was imprisoned by the Daniel Arap Moi regime. It’s a very powerful play of the legendary freedom fighter Dedan Kimathi Wa Wacuiri who led The Kenyan Land and Freedom Army and its ideals. Ngugi wrote this fictionalized trial on what Dedan should've received. But in this play Ngugi exposes the truth behind "Moneyed Justice"
for our people ? What ?
Protected the oppressor. Licensed the murderers of the people: Our people, whipped when they did not pick your tea leaves, your coffee beans. Imprisoned when they refused to "ayah" your babies and "boy" your houses and gardens. Murdered when they didn't rickshaw your ladies and your gentlemen.
I recognize only one law, one court: the court and the law of those who fight against exploitation,
The toilers armed to say, "We demand our freedom."
That's the eternal law of the oppressed, of the humiliated, of the injured, the insulted!
Fight! Struggle! Change!
and lessons on how neocolonial attitudes helped defund the process of true African Liberation.
You kill your people?
I thought they would bribe you with more!
A share in their motor companies.
A share in their Export-Import trade,
A share in their Tourist hotels,
A share in their wheat fields
A share in their stolen wealth.
Only that?
And for a hundred shillings
And posho
And a medal
You help them murder,
You help them massacre,
You help them plunder?
You are ready to die
In the pay of imperialists?
This play deserves much more attention, in literature and theater. It has many potentials of overstanding. This books gets 8 stars from me. This short play has valuable messages.
*The Kenyan Land and Freedom Army are pieces of the truth and reason on why many people walk this land with locs including the very Rastafari livity (Youth Black Faith). Locs are revolutionary expressions of struggle and identity. Not fashion.