内容摘要："People are still interested in this history and rural life - and tourists love Scottish culture.

"People are still interested in this history and rural life - and tourists love Scottish culture.

, Ngũgĩ recalled returning home from Alliance at the end of term to find his entire village had been razed by the colonial authorities.His family members were among the hundreds and thousands forced to live in detention camps during a crackdown on the Mau Mau, a movement of independence fighters.

, which lasted from 1952 to 1960, touched Ngũgĩ's life in numerous, devastating ways.In one of the most crushing, Ngũgĩ's brother, Gitogo, was fatally shot in the back for refusing to comply with a British soldier's command.Gitogo had not heard the command because he was deaf.

In 1959, as the British struggled to maintain their grip on Kenya, Ngũgĩ left to study in Uganda. He enrolled at Makerere University, which remains one of Africa's most prestigious universities.During a writers' conference at Makerere, Ngũgĩ shared the manuscript for his debut novel with revered Nigerian author Chinua Achebe.

Achebe forwarded the manuscript to his publisher in the UK and the book, named Weep Not, Child, was released to critical acclaim in 1964. It was the first major English-language novel to be written by an East African.

Ngũgĩ swiftly followed up with two more popular novels, A Grain of Wheat and The River Between. In 1972, the UK's Times newspaper said Ngũgĩ, then aged 33, was "accepted as one of Africa's outstanding contemporary writers".The levies have worsened relations between China and the US, the two largest global economies - and launched the countries into a tit-for-tat trade battle.

Under a trade truce struck in May at Geneva, the US lowered tariffs imposed on goods from China from 145% to 30%. China's retaliatory tariffs on US goods dropped from 125% to 10%.But a larger trade deal between the countries has not been established.

On Sunday, Treasury Secretary Bessenttold CBS News, the BBC's US news partner, details of the trade will be "ironed out" once Chinese President Xi Jinping and Trump speak, but he did not say exactly when that conversation is expected.