Kenyan writer of essays, plays, short
stories, and novels. He was imprisoned after
the performance of the play Ngaahika
Ndeenda/I Will Marry When I Want 1977 and
lived in exile from 1982. His novels, written
in English and Gikuyu, include The River
Between, Petals of Blood, and Caitaani
Mutharaba-ini/Devil on the Cross, and deal
with colonial and post-independence
oppression.