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Willy Mutunga’s rise as ‘social justice hero’
Friday April 16 2021
The book weaves a load of Kenyan colonial and post-colonial history into Willy’s story.
Willy is one of those accused and detained along with activists like Maina wa Kinyatti, Koigi wa Wamere, Alamin Mazrui, and following the failed coup attempt in August 1982, Raila Odinga.
Given that Mazrui is still writing for a youthful audience, she doesn’t go into detail about the torturous life in detention.
You can tell without even opening the book, Willy Munyoki Mutunga of Kenya: Our Hero of Justice that its author Elizabeth Orchardson-Mazrui is an academic.