>> my father returned to kenya and essentially became sort of a mythic figure to me. >> the icon. >> an icon. >> your father comes back once when you're 10. >> right. >> and it isn't until years later that you learn the real story of what happened to him back in kenya. >> right. >> and then because he starts to speak up and because of the changing political scheme. >> you know, he ends up being blacklisted from the government and in fact, dies a very bitter and lonely man. and there is a tragic element to that. and part of what i had to come to terms with in writing the book and in discovering that entire side of my life and my family was to really recognize that he had been shaped by many of the forces that i was struggling with as a youth. that he, as an african, although
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