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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to pay tribute, as you rightly said, to one of the greatest sons of our nation, and, indeed, also a great son of my home county, Kiambu. Notably, he was also an alumnus of a certain school, and when I speak of this school, I refer to the one he attended from the year 1955 to around 1959 before proceeding to Makerere University. Hon. Speaker, Hon. Otiende Amollo will also be aware of the school I am referring to, which is not Maranda High School, but The Alliance High School. He went to Makerere University, where he started his writing career and did exemplary well writing his first two novels in English. The first novel was ‘Weep Not Child’, which he published in 1964. Hon. Speaker, it is notable that this was around the time we became a Republic. He graduated from university in 1963, when this country was gaining independence. It is notable to note that Ngugi wa Thiong'o says and recalls in his writing how his village, Kamirithu in Limuru, where he was born, was razed down by the colonial masters. He went to Alliance High School. After his first term in school, he went back home and found the entire village razed to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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