Maina wa Kinyatti

Maina wa Kinyatti is a Kenyan Marxist historian and former political prisoner under Daniel arap Moi's dictatorship. He is widely considered the foremost researcher on the Mau Mau in Kenya,^[1] one of the primary reasons that Kenyatti was arrested and imprisoned. After being released from prison on 17 October 1988 (after serving six and a half years, mostly in solitary confinement), he fled the country to Tanzania, fearing a re-arrest by Moi's government. After a month in Dar es Salaam, Kinyatti was forced to apply for policital assylum in the US.^[2] Kinyatti was awarded the PEN Freedom to Write Award in 1988.^[3]

References

1. ^ http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/7436
2. ^ Kenya: A Prison Diary. Maina wa Kinyatti. BookSurge Press. 2009.
3. ^ http://www.pen.org/freedom/bga.htm

Bibliography

• Thunder from the Mountains: Poems and Songs from the Mau Mau
• Mau Mau: A Revolution Betrayed
• Kenya's Freedom Struggle: The Dedan Kimathi Papers
• Kenya: A Prison Notebook
• Mother Kenya: Letters From Prison 1982-1988
• A Season of Blood: Poems from Kenyan prisons

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