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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also take this opportunity to eulogise Ngugi wa Thiong'o; a great writer who influenced many of the readers of the time and the children. Young people would compete on how many books by Ngugi and other African writers they would have read during that particular time. What I find quite strong about Ngugi is that he had to compete with very good writers from West Africa. In that particular period of the 1980s and 1970s, West African writers like Chinua Achebe, and Alechi Amadi, the author of The Concubine, as well as Ama Ata Aidoo, among others, were doing very well. Ngugi wa Thiong’o came out very strongly from the East African region to also compete very competitively with the West African writers, and he was a celebrity among the East African people. Therefore, he was one of the greatest literary writers of Africa. Another thing I find very strong about him is the fact that he wrote about class struggles at a time when nobody wanted to tolerate the politics of class struggle, which remains with us to-date. That is partly why he was imprisoned and subsequently fled the country."
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