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Meja Mwangi


Born
Nanyuki, Kenya
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Meja Mwangi began his writing career in the 1970s, a decade after his more well-known compatriots such as Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Grace Ogot had been publishing their works. When he burst onto the scene with the award-winning Kill Me Quick in 1973, Mwangi was hailed in various quarters as a rising star in the East African literary constellation who was helping to disprove Taban lo Liyong's oft-cited claim that East Africa was a literary desert (Taban 1965, Nazareth 1976). Since then, Meja Mwangi has gone on to establish himself as one of the most prolific of Kenyan writers, publishing eleven novels in seventeen years in addition to short stories, children's books and working with a variety of projects in film. Mwangi's works have received awa ...more

Average rating: 3.85 · 1,351 ratings · 201 reviews · 47 distinct worksSimilar authors
Going Down River Road

3.96 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 1976 — 13 editions
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Kill Me Quick

3.87 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1973 — 8 editions
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The Mzungu Boy

3.80 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 1995 — 15 editions
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The Cockroach Dance (Longma...

3.94 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1979 — 8 editions
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Carcase for Hounds

3.87 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 1974 — 4 editions
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Striving for the Wind

4.09 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1990 — 10 editions
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The Last Plague (Vitabu Vya...

3.77 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions
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The Return of Shaka

4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1989
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the bushtrackers

4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions
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THE BOY GIFT

3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions
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“I hate him.” “You   hate   everyone you don’t like,” Toto reminded him.”
Meja Mwangi, The Cockroach Dance

“He is the one who should apologize,” he said to the foreman. “He broke down our door and sat on our fire.”
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