President Uhuru Meets Veteran Scholar Ngugi Wa Thiong’o Years After Moi Forced Him Into Exile (Photos)

Arguably Kenya’s finest and oldest scholars, Ngugi wa Thiong’o has endured a torrid yet successful career spanning decades and decades of dedicated writing and literary prowess.

His literary works saw him lock horns with the mighty and powerful in the Late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and the retired Moi regimes, forcing the scholar to flee the country to America.

Even in exile, Ngugi never stopped writing and specifically in his native Kikuyu language. He would later return to Kenya in 2004 when Moi had retired and Kibaki taken over as President.

His return, however, was not a joyous one as robbers broke into his house in Nairobi, robbed him and sexually assaulted his wife. So bad.

But Ngugi is back in the country once again, half a century after he published his first book Weep Not, Child. And the latest to meet him is President Uhuru Kenyatta who welcomed him to State House early today.

Check out the photos of their meeting:

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