“Democracy is a really complex phenomenon. It involves the right of a people to criticise freely without being detained in prison. It involves a people being aware of all their rights. It involves the rights of a people to know how the wealth is produced in the country, who controls that wealth, and for whose benefit that wealth is being utilised. Democracy involves therefore people being aware of the forces shaping their lives. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, quoted in ‘Ngugi wa Thiong'o Still Bitter Over his Detention’, Weekly Review, 5 January 1979”