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    "id": 1569154,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1569154/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilgoris, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Sunkuli",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I wish to join everybody else in eulogising Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o. He was definitely a literary giant in the 1970s. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), an online newspaper in the United Kingdom (UK), said about him; that, when he was about 33 years old, he was accepted as one of Africa's outstanding contemporary writers. His best books were those that he wrote under the name of James Ngugi, including The River Between, A Grain of Wheat and Weep Not Child . That is why the 1970s will remember Ngugi. Unfortunately, something happened to him later on. Just when the world was embracing him, he seemed to have retreated. He first retreated from Christianity. He changed his name, James, returned his baptismal card and retreated from Christianity. He then retreated from the English language, which had made him a giant, and started writing in the Kikuyu language with only Kikuyu characters and culture. That is perhaps one of the reasons as to why those who went to school after the 1970s do not remember him as much as you and I do. He must have suffered a lot when he was detained by the late President Jomo Kenyatta. The late President Moi released him as soon as he became president, and he immigrated to the West. However, this does not take away the fact that he was a prolific writer, artist and novelist who we shall always remember. His name is in the history records."
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