num_pages: 228
description: The international outcry over the detention of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o without trial by the Kenyan authorities even reached him in prison. In this book he describes the purposeful degradation and humiliation of prison life.
language: English
title: Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary
titlecomplete: Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary
genres: Politics, Biography, Africa, Autobiography, Nonfiction, History, African Literature, Memoir, Kenya, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 273
series: Memoirs
publisher: Heinemann