“How my father physically abused my late mother” – Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s son

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The acclaimed author’s son expressed the pain of witnessing his mother being systematically erased from Ngugi wa Thiong'o's story.

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Kenyan media outlets say much of Nyambura’s life story was overshadowed by her more famous husband whom she married in 1987.) post, he wrote, “My father @NgugiWaThiongo physically abused my late mother – he would beat her up. Some of my earliest memories are of me going to visit her at my grandmother’s where she would seek refuge. But with that said, it is the silencing of who she was that gets me. Ok- I have said it.

It isn’t the first time Mr Mukoma has made such a distressing revelation about his father, Mr Thiong’o. However, his political activism in Kenya led to the collapse of his first marriage, as he was arrested several times. Mrs Njeri is the director of Human Resource Faculty and Staff Conflict Resolution Services at the University of California, Irvine, where Ngugi is a Distinguished Professor.His work includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children’s literature.

 

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