{"id":1623696,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1623696/?format=json","text_counter":190,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Ogola","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"I want to tell you that as you go to read the novels that you are taught today, in honour of Professor Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, a gallant son of this country, please go and find books called The River Between, A Grain of Wheat and Weep Not, Child . For a number of us who have not read, if you are not a fan of reading, at least go and read A Grain ofWheat . As I have said, one of his interesting books is Petals of Blood that led to his imprisonment."}