Standing Up & Breaking the Silence Around Guantanamo & World Renowned Author Ngugi wa Thiong'o Remembers the Brutality of Colonial Kenya that Shaped his Youth
Weekly Program
Debra Sweet, National Director of the World Can't Wait, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Irvine and a world-renowned novelist, playwright and cultural theorist
Sweet talks about the campaign to place a full page ad in the NY Times -"Stop the Torture! Close Guantanamo! End the War Crimes and Violations of Fundamental Rights" - and a weekend of actions against Guantanamo. Ngugi talks about the second volume of his memoirs, In the House of the Interpreter and tells a gripping story of an African teenager trying to make his way through a Kenya under the boot of British colonialism.
Michael Slate - Host and Producer Henry Carson - Assistant Producer Teddy Robinson - Engineer
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