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List Of Kenyan Writers
This is a list of Kenyan writers. A * Justus Kiprono (2019–) * Abdilatif Abdalla (1946–) * Carolyne Adalla * Jared Angira (1947–), poet * Jonah Anguka * Khadambi Asalache (1934–), poet and author B * Karen Blixen a.k.a. Isak Dinesen (1885–1962), novelist C * Rocha Chimera, Swahili author and critic D * Hazel de Silva Mugot (1947–), novelist * Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla G * Mugo Gatheru (1925– ), autobiographical writer * Muga Gicaru (c. 1920– ), novelist, real name as John Mwengi * Moraa Gitaa, author, novelist, short story writer, 2010 Penguin Prize for African Writing nominee, 2008 * Stanley Gazemba (1974–) author, novelist H * Elspeth Huxley (1907–1997), journalist and autobiographical writer I * Francis Imbuga (1947–2012), director and playwright K * Samuel Kahiga, short story writer and novelist * Joseph Elijah Kariuki (1931–1975), poet * Amin Kassam (1948–), journalist and poet * Jomo Kenyatta (1892?–1978), politician and writer * Leona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demographics Of Kenya
The demography of Kenya is monitored by the Kenyan National Bureau of Statistics. Kenya is a multi-ethnic state in East Africa. Its total population was at 47 558,296 as of the 2019 census. A national census was conducted in 1999, although the results were never released. A new census was undertaken in 2009, but turned out to be controversial, as the questions about ethnic affiliation seemed inappropriate after the ethnic violence of the previous year. Preliminary results of the census were published in 2010. Kenya's population was reported as 47.6 million during the 2019 census compared to 38.6 million inhabitants 2009, 30.7 million in 1999, 21.4 million in 1989, and 15.3 million in 1979. This was an increase of a factor of 2.5 over 30 years, or an average growth rate of more than 3 percent per year. The population growth rate has been reported as reduced during the 2000s, and was estimated at 2.7 percent (as of 2010), resulting in an estimate of 46.5 million in 2016. Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Elijah Kariuki
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled ''Yūsuf''. In Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genesis Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali A
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. The issue of his succession caused a major rift between Muslims and divided them into Shia and Sunni groups. Ali was assassinated in the Grand Mosque of Kufa in 661 by the forces of Mu'awiya, who went on to found the Umayyad Caliphate. The Imam Ali Shrine and the city of Najaf were built around Ali's tomb and it is visited yearly by millions of devotees. Ali was a cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, raised by him from the age of 5, and accepted his claim of divine revelation by age 11, being among the first to do so. Ali played a pivotal role in the early years of Islam while Muhammad was in Mecca and under severe persecution. After Muhammad's relocation to Medina in 622, Ali married his daughter Fatima and, among others, fathered Hasan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Matindi
Anne-Rose Waruguru Matindi (born 1942) is a Kenyan nurse and children's writer, known for her plays aimed at elementary school children.Jones, Wilma L."Twenty Contemporary African Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliography" 1995. Accessed 11 February 2020. Life Anne Matindi was born in Murang'a District, Kenya, and was educated at Nginda Girls' School and Kahuhia Girls' School. By the time her first collection of stories was published in 1967, she was married with three children. Matindi's stories, set in East Africa East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territories make up Eastern Africa: Due to the historical ..., are often amusing traditional stories about domestic animals. Works * ''The sun and the wind''. Nairobi : East African Publishing House, 1967. Illustrations by Adrienne Moore. East African junior library, no. 7. * ''The lonel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Mangua
Charles Mangua (born in Nyeri, 1939 – 20 March 2021) was a Kenyan fiction writer. His novels explore, among other issues, the "hardship and urban poverty" experienced by ordinary people in places such as Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. Mangua's style was irreverent and often humorous. His early works, ''Son of Woman'' (1971) and ''A Tail in the Mouth'' (1972), sold more copies than any previous works of literature published in East Africa. His work had an influence on other Kenyan writers and he was awarded the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature for ''A Tail in the Mouth''.Lindfors, B. (1994)''Comparative Approaches to Kenyan Literature'' Amsterdam: Rodopi. Bibliography * 1971''Son of Woman'' Nairobi: East African Publishing House. * 1972: ''A Tail in the Mouth'', Nairobi: East African Publishing House. * 1986''Son of Woman in Mombasa'' Nairobi: Heinemann. * 1994: ''Kanina and I'', East African Educational, Nairobi. References External links Charles Mangua author pageat Mich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye
Marjorie Phyllis Oludhe Macgoye (21 October 1928 – 1 December 2015), was born in Southampton, England, but immigrated to Kenya soon after Kenya became independent. She was a poet, novelist, and a missionary bookseller. She studied at the University of London for both her bachelor and master’s degree. She moved to Kenya in 1954 to sell books and became a citizen in 1964. After immigrating to Kenya, she began pursuing a career of being an author. At first, she published stories in magazines. As her success grew, she started writing works of longer length. In early 1970, her novels and poetry were being published. She has won awards for many of her works such as ''Growing Up at Lina School, Murder in Majengo'', but her most notable novel is ''Coming to Birth.'' Her award-winning novels portrays the life of a Kenyan woman during the time period 1956–1978. While in Kenya, Marjorie met Macgoye, her husband, who is a medical doctor. The two were married in 1960. Early life Marj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Lumiri
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Muthoni Likimani
Muthoni Gachanja Likimani (born 1926) is a Kenyan activist and writer, who has published works of both fiction and non-fiction, as well as children's books. In her career she has also been a broadcaster, actress, teacher and publisher. She was the first Kenyan beauty queen, the first African to establish a public relations firm in Kenya and one of the country's earliest female authors. Biography Muthoni Likimani was born and raised in Kahuhia Mission, Murang'a District, Kenya, the daughter of Mariuma Wanjiura and Rev. Levi GochanJa. Her father was one of the first Kenyan Anglican church ministers.Elisabeth Bekers"Likimani, Muthoni Gachanja" in Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates (eds), ''Dictionary of African Biography, Volume 6'', Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 499–500. She taught at Kahuhia Teachers’ Training College, before undertaking further studies in Britain and Israel, becoming involved in broadcasting and public relations.Emeka-Mayaka Gekara and Juliu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinyanjui Kombani
Kinyanjui Kombani, popularly known as “''The Banker who Writes'',” is a Kenyan novelist, playwright, script writer, and literature critic/activist. His novels, The Last Villains of Molo and Den of Inequities have been used for undergraduate and postgraduate education by universities in Kenya and abroad. Kombani is also a recipient of the Kenyatta University Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2014 and was recognized as a Business Daily Top 40 under 40 in 2015. Early life Joseph Kinyanjui Kombani was born in Molo in the then Nakuru District of Rift Valley Province in Kenya. He was the last born in a family of five children. His mother single-handedly catered for the family in a single-roomed ''mabati'' house after separating from his father before he was born. Kinyanjui passed by a Standard Chartered branch on his way to school at Molo Academy for his primary school education, which would later become his employer. After the 1992 general elections, the ethnically diverse town o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Ole Kulet
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John Kiriamiti
John Kiriamiti (born 14 February 1950) is a Kenyan former bank robber turned writer. Born in Thuita Village, Kamacharia Location of Murang'a District in Central Kenya, he is the second of the nine children of Albert and Anne Wanjiru Kiriamiti, both primary school teachers in Murang'a. Background Kiriamiti is best known as the writer of '' My Life in Crime'' and '' My Life with a Criminal: Milly's Story'', which were both a sensation with Kenyan youth in the late 1980s and '90s. In the years subsequent to his release from Kamiti Maximum Security Prison Kamiti Maximum Security Prison is a prison in Nairobi County, Kenya. The prison is within Roysambu Constituency, Kasarani District, bordering Kiambu County. Originally named "Kamiti Downs", it sits in the middle of its own estates which lie fal ..., he has also become a renowned philanthropist and social reformist rehabilitating street children and thieves in his rural Murang'a home. Besides writing novels, Kiriamiti owns and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanjiru Kihoro
Wanjiru Kihoro (9 September 1953 – 12 October 2006) was an economist, writer and feminist activist from Kenya. She was one of the founders of the pan-African women's organisation Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) and the Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners in Kenya (CRPPK), to protest the incarceration of Kenyans during Daniel arap Moi's regime. Education and career Kihoro graduated in economics from Columbia University, New York. She went on to complete an MA in development studies and a PhD at Leeds University during her working life in the late 1980s. In 1982, Kihoro and her husband settled in London on exile from Kenya, at a time when Moi's arrests of dissidents had intensified, particularly of lawyers and academics. This is when she helped found the Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners in Kenya (CRPPK). With other activists, Kihoro produced and wrote for ''Kenya News'', which was then investigated by Moi's government. She began work for The Africa Centr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
