-- Africa and political incarceration
-- Human rights and narratives of incarceration in the colonial Kenya
-- Political incarceration and the postcolonial period in Kenya
-- Chapter 1: A tale of two prison tales
-- Who are the Babukusu?
-- The Sela and Mwambu tale and incarceration
-- Power dynamics and belly politics
-- Gender prison and gender politics
-- Songs as subversion
-- The Waswahili people
-- The Liyongo epic as a prison narrative
-- The question of gender
-- The I-pronoun, truth, and trauma
-- Chapter 2: Articulating human rights violations in the pioneer prison memoir
-- A martyr in the making
-- The narrative imperative
-- Torture as human rights violation
-- The 'I' and the 'we'
-- Truth claims
-- Issues of style
-- Chapter 3: The tenor and genre of Ngugi's prison narrative
-- Narrator as harbinger of truth
-- Torture and trauma
-- Political manifesto and art manifesto
-- Foreshortened history of oppression
-- List of grievances
-- Calling audience to action
-- Chapter 4: Doing things with words in prison poetry
-- The multiple is and speaking in tongues
-- Why write?
-- Swahili prosody and poetry as autobiography
-- Resistance and truth
-- Masking the message
-- A range of miscellaneous voices
-- The journey motif
-- Voice of the unborn
-- Chapter 5: The quest for the right to be human in prison poetry
-- Where and why?
-- Dissipation and disappearance of hope
-- The female and parental selves
-- Disavowal of ideology
-- Trauma and tragedy
-- Comparing Mazrui's and Abdalla's prison poetry
-- Human rights and narratives of incarceration in the colonial Kenya
-- Political incarceration and the postcolonial period in Kenya
-- Chapter 1: A tale of two prison tales
-- Who are the Babukusu?
-- The Sela and Mwambu tale and incarceration
-- Power dynamics and belly politics
-- Gender prison and gender politics
-- Songs as subversion
-- The Waswahili people
-- The Liyongo epic as a prison narrative
-- The question of gender
-- The I-pronoun, truth, and trauma
-- Chapter 2: Articulating human rights violations in the pioneer prison memoir
-- A martyr in the making
-- The narrative imperative
-- Torture as human rights violation
-- The 'I' and the 'we'
-- Truth claims
-- Issues of style
-- Chapter 3: The tenor and genre of Ngugi's prison narrative
-- Narrator as harbinger of truth
-- Torture and trauma
-- Political manifesto and art manifesto
-- Foreshortened history of oppression
-- List of grievances
-- Calling audience to action
-- Chapter 4: Doing things with words in prison poetry
-- The multiple is and speaking in tongues
-- Why write?
-- Swahili prosody and poetry as autobiography
-- Resistance and truth
-- Masking the message
-- A range of miscellaneous voices
-- The journey motif
-- Voice of the unborn
-- Chapter 5: The quest for the right to be human in prison poetry
-- Where and why?
-- Dissipation and disappearance of hope
-- The female and parental selves
-- Disavowal of ideology
-- Trauma and tragedy
-- Comparing Mazrui's and Abdalla's prison poetry