Charles Mangua (born in Nyeri, 1939 – 20 March 2021) was a

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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 Son of Woman is a Postcolonial Kenyan crime fiction novel by Charles Mangua, which was first published in 1971 in Nairobi, Kenya. In a country struggling to reclaim identity, Mangua creates a character that is "returning to a homeland….using an av ...

'' (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 The Text Book Centre Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature is a biennial literary award given by the Kenya Publishers' Association. It has been called "the most prestigious literary award in the country". The first award ceremony took place in 197 ...

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 page
at Michigan State University Press.
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