Joseph Muthee is an Kenya

Kenya

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n writer and Kikuyu sage who wrote about his experience as a detainee of the British colonial government at Kapenguria

Kapenguria

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 during the Mau Mau Uprising

Mau Mau Uprising

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. He was released in 1959, and entered politics as the KANU Party

Kenya African National Union

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 Locational Branch Chairman of Magutu between 1960 and 1968. Poor finances eventually forced him to return to horticulture to support his family. He won the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature

Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature

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in 2007 for Kizuizini.