In the Daily Nation Ciugu Mwagiru profiles Kenyan author Meja Mwangi, the reclusive writer with a mighty pen.
I read a couple of his books that appeared in the African Writers Series back in the day, and he's continued to write steadily -- though the books have often been difficult to find abroad. (The observation that: "For some years now, he has been attracting the attention of American publishers" is also ... slightly misleading -- but at least the books do seem to be more readily available; get, for example, The Cockroach Dance at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.)
A solid overview of his life and career -- including the interesting quote:
I read a couple of his books that appeared in the African Writers Series back in the day, and he's continued to write steadily -- though the books have often been difficult to find abroad. (The observation that: "For some years now, he has been attracting the attention of American publishers" is also ... slightly misleading -- but at least the books do seem to be more readily available; get, for example, The Cockroach Dance at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.)
A solid overview of his life and career -- including the interesting quote:
"My only mistake," he told an interviewer, "was that I didn't use a pseudonym for my popular novels and use my own name for the rest. That way, I would have avoided all this criticism."