Legson Kayira

Legson Kayira was born around 1942 in Nyasaland. In October 1958 he set out on foot for America, crossed Tanganyika and Uganda and reached Khartoum, from where he obtained a place at Skagit Valley College, in Washington State. A graduate in political science of the University of Washington in 1965, he then studied history at Cambridge, at St Catharine's College. In 1965 he published the autobiographical account of his walk, then five novels devoted to post-independence Africa, and died in London on 14 October 2012, aged seventy.

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• NovelThe Looming ShadowLegson Kayira · 1967Literature