I think a repressive regime always fears people who are awakened - particularly ordinary people. If they are … - Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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I think the way the world has evolved, it's maybe caught up to me. It makes more sense and it makes it click on a larger scale.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

I think a repressive regime always fears people who are awakened - particularly ordinary people. If they are awakened, I think governments all over the world feel uncomfortable about that; they want to be in control. They want to be the ones telling people: "This is what we have done in history" but when people begin to say, "No this is what we have done in history" it's a different thing.

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I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.

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Of course it's very, very important for me to feel Kenya, to feel, every day, this is where images come from. So to be taken away from that by political pressure or other means - one is taken away from the area, which is the basis of inspiration - is difficult.

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