text: A man with the very British name of "Cambridge Fraudsham" is deposed as headmaster of the Siriana school in a novel by this author in which several highway surveyors die in a plane crash.
full_question: A man with the very British name of "Cambridge Fraudsham" is deposed as headmaster of the Siriana school in a novel by this author in which several highway surveyors die in a plane crash. The deaf-mute Gitogo is shot in the back in another novel by this author, in which a carpenter is shuttled between seven detention camps overseen first by Thomas Robson, then John Thompson. This author explained his decision to renounce writing in (*) English in his essay Decolonizing the Mind, and was detained without trial for writing the play I Will Marry When I Want. The hunger striker Mugo and the villainous Karanja aid the British and betray the Mau Mau Rebellion in this man's best-known novel. For 10 points, name this Kenyan author of Petals of Blood and A Grain of Wheat.
first_sentence: A man with the very British name of "Cambridge Fraudsham" is deposed as headmaster of the Siriana school in a novel by this author in which several highway surveyors die in a plane crash.
raw_answer: Ngugi wa Thiong'o [or James Ngugi; accept Petals of Blood until "this author" is read]