Francis Imbuga

Francis Davis Imbuga was born in 1947 in the village of Wenyange, in western Kenya. After Alliance High School, he studied at the University of Nairobi, graduating in 1973 and taking a master's degree in 1975, then obtained a doctorate from the University of Iowa in 1992. An actor at the national broadcasting corporation from 1970 to 1973, he wrote plays from 1969, taught in Nairobi and then became professor and dean at Kenyatta University. His plays, which are on school syllabuses, set modernity against tradition. He died in Nairobi on 18 November 2012.

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• TheatreBetrayal in the CityFrancis Imbuga · 1976Literature