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Its theatre run was shut down by the government of then President Jomo Kenyatta and Ngũgĩ was locked up in a maximum security jail for a year without trial.

Ngũgĩ was released after Daniel arap Moi replaced Mr Kenyatta as president.

Prof Philomena Mwaura, an academic at Kenya's Kenyatta University, told the BBC that Roman Africa was very multicultural, with local Berber and Punic groups, freed slaves and people who had come from Rome found there.

Uhuru Kenyatta went on to win the election re-run later in 2017 - the opposition candidate withdrew from the contest.

Philadelphia elected officials appear united in skepticism, the broad coalition that came out in support of Whole Foods workers on Monday a testament to the power of organized labor in the city: among the dozen or so politicians in attendance were progressives, like Councilmember Jamie Gauthier and state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, as well as state Rep. Amen Brown, a conservative-leaning Democrat who has raised tens of thousands of dollars from groups linked to Jeffrey Yass, a Republican mega-donor and ally of President-elect Donald Trump.