The Brutal Assault On Ngugi And His Wife

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

For about two weeks now, Kenya has been in the news for the very wrong and shameful reasons.

On the night of Wednesday, August 11, 2004, four hoodlums, armed with two pistols, a machete and a pair of wire cutters forced their way into the apartment of East Africa’s foremost writer, Professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o, at Norfolk Towers, Nairobi, and severely brutalized him and his wife, Njeeri.

They took away a number of valuables including Ngugi’s laptop computer, and severally burnt the writer’s face with cigarettes.

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 NGUGI: Brutalized and humiliated  in his own country

While Ngugi fought with the hoodlums in another room, one of them found his way into the bedroom where Mrs. Ngugi was already in bed. He cruelly hit her with gun-buts, overpowered her, and, then…raped her!