RKS African Literature: Take the Communist Nonsense to China or the Soviet Union! (Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o)

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Those who want to awaken the masses should be shown the whip-detention or prison- just like the fellows you all know about. But I normally send around my thugs round to those who are obstinate-after plying them or course, with drugs and alcohol and money-and then they cart their bodies along to the hyenas on Ngong Hill or to the crocodiles in the Athi River to continue their work for the masses inside the belly of a hyena or crocodile (like the fellows you all know about). I don’t believe in this democracy nonsense. In the morning the topic is democracy. In the evening the topic is democracy. Is democracy food and drink? If I could get hold of those kids at the university together with their pygmy sized teachers, Wangenijuta….I would load them on an airplane and request them to take their communist nonsense to China or the Soviet Union.

Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, “Devil on the Cross”, 1982

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Robert K Stephen writes about food ,drink, travel, film, and lifestyle issues. He also has published serialized novels "Life at Megacorp", "Virus # 26, "Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog" and "The Penniless Pensioner" Robert was the first associate member of the Wine Writers’ Circle of Canada. He also holds a Mindfulness Certification from the University of Leiden and the University of Toronto. Be it Spanish cured meat, dried fruit, BBQ, or recycled bamboo place mats, Robert endeavours to escape the mundane, which is why he has established this publication. His motto is, "Have Story, Will Write."

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