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This conflict’s “prison songs” were collected in Thunder from the Mountains and Gathering Seaweed. A banker and an Indian tempt a leader of this conflict who is killed by an offstage firing squad in a bilingual play about his trial that was banned after FESTAC (“fess-tack”) ’77. Villagers displaced by this conflict built (-5[1])KCECC’s community theater with collective labor, as recounted in the 2018 (10[1])memoir Wrestling with the Devil. A carpenter who survived this conflict plans (-5[1])to carve a stool for his estranged wife in the last sentence (10[1])of a novel in which (10[1])D. O. Thompson is exiled for killing 11 hunger strikers. During this conflict, (10[1])the settler Mr. Howlands castrates (10[1])Boro’s father and Njoroge (10[2])(“un-juh-ROH-gay”) is expelled from mission school in the novel Weep Not, Child. (-5[1])For 10 points, Mugo (10[1])reveals (10[2])that (10[2])he betrayed Kihika (10[1])during what (-5[1])conflict in A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa (-5[1])Thiong’o? (10[2])■END■ (10[5]0[3])

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