Meja Mwangi

Meja Mwangi, whose full name was David Dominic Mwangi, was born on 27 December 1948 in Nanyuki, at the foot of Mount Kenya. Educated in Nanyuki, at Kenyatta College and then briefly in Leeds, he worked for the Office de radiodiffusion-télévision française and the British Council in Nairobi before devoting himself to writing, was an Iowa writing fellow in 1975 and worked as an assistant director on foreign film shoots. The author of novels for adults and for young readers, twice winner of the Jomo Kenyatta Prize, he died in Malindi on 11 December 2025.

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• NovelKill Me QuickMeja Mwangi · 1973Literature