Micere Githae Mugo

Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo was born on 12 December 1942 in Baricho, in Kirinyaga district, to schoolteacher parents committed to independence. A graduate of Makerere in 1966, where she also won a prize as an actress, she studied in Canada, taught in Nairobi from 1973 and in 1978 became the first woman dean of a faculty in Kenya. Forced into exile in 1982 and stripped of her nationality, she taught in Zimbabwe and then at Syracuse University, and recovered her Kenyan nationality in the mid-1990s. She died on 30 June 2023.

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• PoetryDaughter of My People, Sing!Micere Githae Mugo · 1976Literature