I WILL MARRY WHEN I WANT

This play, which was developed with Kikuyu actors at the Kamiriithu Cultural Centre at Limuru, proved so powerful, especially in the use of song, that it was banned and probably contributed to Ngugi's detention without trial. books. The play depicts the protest of peasants in Kenya after independence. It shows the plight of the peasant family like Kĩgũũnda's family — Kĩgũũnda has only one and a half acres which he considers the basis of the family. It dramatizes high exploitation as foreigners use indigenous people like Ahab Kioi wa Kanoru to exploit fellow Africans. It is an attack on neo-colonialism.