Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams - Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies - Bog

This study explores the relationship between art and political power in society, beginning with the experience of writers in contemporary Africa. It then raises the wider issues of the relationship between the state and the state of art, between the artists and the guardians of a modern state.