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Testing the Censors |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / BOOKS FROM ABROAD |
| Author: Charles R. Larson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 2,229 Words, 13,367 Characters |
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THREE DAYS ON THE CROSS
Wahome Mutahi
Nairobi, Kenya: Heinemann, 1991
182pp.
The graphic cover illustration of Kenyan journalist Wahome Mutahi's first novel, Three Days on the Cross, leaves little to the imagination. In the foreground is a battered prisoner lying on the floor while a police officer wielding a large iron wrench stands over him. Off in the background another officer (of a much higher rank) coolly observes the brutal scene. The horror on the prisoner's bloody face reveals the totality of his fear and humiliation. The shocking artistry of the illustration (reminiscent of pulp fiction or cheap detective magazines of the past) immediately seems out of character with what one might expect from the publisher of serious, educational books.
The disclaimer on the back of...
. . .
... most repressive of societies, any journalist worth his salt knows that political and social alteration can only come about from within. No matter how censored they may be, words are still the writers basic tools for bringing about that eventual change. As for Mutahi's personal fate, we will have to wait for the next installment until after his second novel, The Jail Bugs, appears this year.
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