Personal reflections on a day from the past.
16 A ugust 1631 (chosen by exiled Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o). On this day,
Yusufbin Hasan , the African king of Mombasa and Malindi, invited himself to the house of his Portuguese overlord and murdered him. For Ngugi wa Thiong'o, this is the day when a man's true culture broke free from its colonial shackles.
Direct or Terry Braun Producer John Trlffitt