This conflict’s “prison songs” were collected in Thunder from the Mountains and Gathering Seaweed. A banker and an Indian tempt a leader of this conflict who is killed by an offstage firing squad in a bilingual play about his trial that was banned after FESTAC (“fess-tack”) ’77. Villagers displaced by this conflict built KCECC’s community theater with collective labor, as recounted in the 2018 memoir Wrestling with the Devil. A carpenter who survived this conflict plans to carve a stool for his estranged wife in the last sentence of a novel in which D. O. Thompson is exiled for killing 11 hunger strikers. During this conflict, the settler Mr. Howlands castrates Boro’s father and Njoroge (“un-juh-ROH-gay”) is expelled from mission school in the novel Weep Not, Child. For 10 points, Mugo reveals that he betrayed Kihika during what conflict in A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o? ■END■
ANSWER: Mau Mau rebellion [or Mau Mau uprising or Mau Mau revolt; or Kenya Emergency; prompt on Emergency or struggle or the Movement] (Clues include songs translated by Maina wa Kĩnyattĩ in Jack Mapanje’s anthology Gathering Seaweed, Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo and Ngũgĩ’s play The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, the World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, and the Kamĩrĩthũ Community Education and Cultural Centre.)
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