September 3, 2004

Outspoken Kenyan Scholar Is Attacked

By WACHIRA KIGOTHO

A well-known Kenyan scholar and writer who teaches at the University of California at Irvine was attacked and robbed at gunpoint in August while making his first visit to Kenya in 22 years. The scholar, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, is a frequent critic of the previous government.

Mr. Ngugi and his wife, Mary Njeeri Ngugi, were attacked by four armed men three hours after the couple had flown back to Nairobi, Kenya, from Makerere University, in Uganda, where Mr. Ngugi had delivered a lecture on