MAITU NJUGIRA: A PLAY BY NGUGI WA THIONGO WHICH WAS BANNED BY MOI

The Kenyan government never allowed Ngugi’s play Mother Sing for Me to be staged. With over two-thirds of those who participated were women, the Kamiriithu Community Education and Cultural Centre was started in the 70’s, and it attracted poor peasants, factory workers and primary school teachers, who through theatre learnt of the various ways in which they could empower themselves and gain consciousness about their conditions. Under instructions from Daniel arap Moi in March 1982, the Central Provincial Commissioner Mr David Musila and a group of armed police officers demolished Kamirithu Community Educational and Cultural Centre.