Koigi wa Wamwere
1949 – ? Kenyan politician, writer, human rights activist
Kenyan dissident detained without trial under both Kenyatta and Moi and later tried for treason.
Koigi wa Wamwere, from Nakuru in the Rift Valley, became one of Kenya's most persistent government critics. He was detained without trial under Jomo Kenyatta and again under Daniel arap Moi, spending long stretches in prison. In the 1990s he was charged in connection with a raid on a police station in cases his supporters called political; he wrote several memoirs about detention and torture. He later served briefly as an assistant minister.
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- 1982 Koigi wa Wamwere detained without trial the detained activist
- 1990 Koigi wa Wamwere jailed and driven into exile central figure