With authoritarians on the rise, the left needs a viable party
08 June 2025 - 00:00
The passing of the great Kenyan writer and former political prisoner Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o reminds us of the kind of political and moral clarity offered by the best of our intellectuals. At home, a number of our public intellectuals have drawn comparisons between Jacob Zuma and Ngũgĩ’s Big Ben Mambo — the grotesque autocrat obsessed with grandeur, sycophancy, and delusions of eternal rule in his final novel, The Wizard of the Crow...
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