Rebeka Njau

Rebeka Njau was born in 1932 at Kanyariri, in Kiambu county. She was among the first pupils of Alliance Girls High School, in 1949, then studied at Makerere University College in Kampala, where she obtained a teaching diploma in 1958. A teacher, she co-founded a girls' school in Nairobi in 1964, helped her husband, the painter Elimo Njau, to found art galleries, and edited the magazine Target of the National Council of Churches of Kenya. Her play The Scar appeared in 1963 in the review Transition.

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• NovelRipples in the PoolRebeka Njau · 1975Literature