Biography EssayWhen he was incarcerated as a political detainee in Kamiti Maximum Security Prison near Nairobi in 1978 for his part in the production of his Gikuyu-language play Ngaahika Ndeenda (per...
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o (born 1938) was Kenya's most famous writer. Best-known as a novelist, he also wrote plays, literary criticism, and essays on cultural and political topics.Ngugi wa Thiong'o (formerly...
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When he was incarcerated as a political detainee in Kamiti Maximum Security Prison near Nairobi in 1978 for his part in the production of his Gikuyu-language play Ngaahika Ndeenda (performed, 1977; pu...
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The Bush administration took action Tuesday against an Iran-based foundation, including its U.S. branch, for allegedly providing support to the terrorist group Hezbollah.The Treasury Department's a...
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Gaza City (dpa) - Below follows the full transcript of the 90-
second voice-recording of Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit, as posted by
the Palestinian Hamas movement's armed w...
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VATICAN CITY, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The beatification of 498
Catholics killed during the Spanish Civil war was not
politically motivated, the Vatican's number two said on Monday. Cardinal Tarcisio Be...
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"You, America, the West must attack Iran," the Arab said."Attack Iran how?" I asked him. "What targets?""The mullahs," he replied."Their nuclear program?" I asked. When he nodded emphatically, I as...
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Saddam Hussein's eldest daughter briefly attended a protest against her father's execution on Monday, her first public appearance since he was hanged.Raghad Saddam Hussein stopped in at the demonst...
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Tehran (dpa) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has hurt the
sentiments of Muslims worldwide by knighting Indian-born British
author Salman Rushdie, the Iranian vice speaker sai...
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Hundreds of people brought unlit candles and flowers to Saddam Hussein's tomb on Saturday to mark what would have been his 70th birthday.Children wore white, along with badges bearing Saddam's port...
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The young black-turbaned cleric detained for nearly 12 hours Friday by U.S. troops comes from one of Iraq's most influential Shiite families and is being groomed for a major leadership role by his ...
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Iraq's Sunni Arab deputy prime minister who was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt last month said in remarks aired Friday that an "Arab terrorist" was behind the attack, not one of his ...
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Tehran (dpa) - An Iranian cleric on Friday called the knighting of
Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie a clear sign that Britain
was on a confrontation course with the...
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US acts against groups aiding Hezbollah
