Donald goines kenyatta series

 

American writer, a career criminal and addict who wrote his first two novels in prison. Goines's books have inspired a number of lyricists from Tupac to Noreaga. They have sold over 5 million copies – according to rumors the figure has reached 10 million.

His series about Kenyatta (under the name Al C. Clark) describes a black revolutionary, who campaigns against exploitation and evils of inner city life. Goines published all his works in the period of four years.

Donald Goines was born in Detroit to a relatively comfortable family – his parents, Joseph and Myrtle Goines, owned a local dry cleaner, and he did not have problems with the law or drugs.

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The children occasionally helped at the shop. Goines attended Catholic elementary school and was expected to go into his family's laundry business. Instead Goines enlisted in the US Air Force, and to get in he had to lie his age.

From 1952 to 1955 he served in the army. During this period he got hooked on heroin.