East becomes East and the West is West, and never the twain shall meet. Nothing exemplifies this attitude better than our approaches to questions of art. Literature is often taught as if it has nothing to do with other realms. Yet, literature results from acts of men and women in society, a product their intellectual and imaginative activity. Writing reflects a community wrestling with its environment to make it yield the means of life.
Literature is a result of the human's wrestling with nature and with one another.
That was how I came to join others in what later was to be called Kamiruthu Community Education and Cultural Centre. The use of English as my literary medium or expression, particularly in theater and the novel, had always disturbed me. It was Kamiruthu which forced me to turn to my native language Gikuyu and to break with my part. The question of audience settled the problem of language choice, and the language choice settled the question of audience. The play, Ngaahika Ndeenda, involved the local workers in the village in telling the story of a community.