1. Detention at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison

    · Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, Nairobi, Kenya

    His work with the Kamiriithu community and the political force of his writing led to detention without trial at Kenya’s Kamiti Maximum Security Prison. The source supports a 1977–1978 detention; the card uses the supported start year.

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