Night Waves - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Philip Dodd in extended conversation with the Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong'o who has been considered one of Africa's leading literary voices since independence from colonialism. Now resident in America, he is publishing a memoir of his childhood in the then-British Kenya, and his family's involvement in the Mau Mau uprising. Thing'o talks to Philip about his life and career, including his imprisonment by the Kenya Government in 1977 for the critical message of his writing.