What President Uhuru Told Ngugi Wa Thiong’o Has Left Twitter Roaring With Mixed Reactions

 

Yesterday Ghafla! Kenya told you that President Uhuru had invited renowned scholar and author Prof. Ngugi Wa Thiong’o to State House years after Moi sent him into exile.

Ngugi has endured a torrid yet glittering career in his life ever since he realized his desire and talent in writing.

His literary works angered Moi in 1977 who ordered Ngugi’s arrest and a 1 year detention where he was tortured after publishing the book ‘I Will Marry When I Want.’

Upon his release, Ngugi fled to the US for fear of being killed by the Moi regime and vowed never to come back unless Moi was out of office as President of Kenya.

And Indeed he lived up to his word as he stayed in exile for 22 years and came back when Kibaki took over from Moi.

But then Kenya was the same even then. When he returned in 2004, he was attacked, robbed and his wife sexually assaulted by bandits in the house he was staying in Nairobi.

Ngugi left the country and only returned this year, 50 years after publishing his first book, Weep Not, Child.

And it was yesterday that Ngugi made his stop at State House for the first time, meeting President Uhuru who told him:

Uhuru’s message to Ngugi was met with mixed reactions from Kenyans on twitter. Here is what some said: