Question

This author wrote about the “Organization for Modern Theft and Robbery” in a novel written on prison toilet paper. (0[1])With a younger collaborator, this author of Devil on the Cross wrote a play in which one character loses a deed to a small plot of land to finance his wedding; that play’s performance led to this author’s imprisonment in 1977. In a novel by this author, General R. wrongly thinks that the killer of District Officer Robson was sold out by Karanja. This author of I Will (*) Marry When I Want (10[1])wrote a novel set prior to Uhuru Day in which Mugo betrays the revolutionary Kihika in the Mau Mau (“mao mao”) Rebellion. The political novel A Grain of Wheat and many recent works in Gikuyu are by, for 10 points, what Kenyan author? ■END■

ANSWER: Ngũgĩ (“n-GOO-ghee”) wa Thiong’o [or James Ngugi; prompt on Thiong’o]
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