[1] The play depicts the injustices and excesses of post-colonial Kenya, and was staged by non-intellectuals in an open-air theatre at the Kamirithu Educational and Cultural Center in Limuru.

He was educated at Ngenia Secondary School and from 1972 to 1974 worked with the Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation.

[4] He then joined Zimbabwean Foundation for Education with Production (ZIMFEP) where he worked for several years.

[citation needed] Ngũgĩ wa Mirii was known as a supporter of Robert Mugabe and Zanu-PF.

[citation needed] On 3 May 2008, Ngũgĩ wa Mirii died in a car accident in Zimbabwe, after he drove into a stationary lorry nearby the suburb of Eastlea.