Ngugi Among National Books Critics Awards Finalists

Kenya's prolific writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o was among 30 finalists announced on Monday for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle’s (NBCC) Awards.

The UC Irvine professor was nominated for his recent autobiography 'In the House of the Interpreter' published by  Pantheon. The book is a follow-up to his first memoir, 'Dreams in a Time of War' introducing the reader to the creation of modern Africa from the collision of a series of powerful opposing forces; nationalism and colonialism, rural tradition and capitalist modernity.

Prof. Micere Githae Mugo

She was rewarded yesterday at University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania with Distinguished Nyerere Lecturer 2012. Micere is a playwright, author, poet, literal critic, activist and instructor born in 1942, Baricho in Kirinyaga County.

She attended Alliance Girls High School before leaving for Makerere University for her B.A and later the University of New Brunswick for her M.A. In 1978, she gained her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and returned home to lecture at the University of Nairobi where she became the first female faculty dean in Kenya.

The man of a million laughs Whispers

The man of a million laughs Whispers

Whispers hiding behind the tree, Pajero on the left with her acquaintance

The late Wahome Mutahi ‘Whispers’ was born on 24^th October 1954 in Nyeri. “Whispers” the brainchild of Mutahi, was a weekly column on the Sunday Nation newspaper. It revolved around a man and his family- his subservient wife “Thatcher”, her mother “Appepklonia”, the rebellious son “Whis Junior” and his daughter “Pajero”. A Sunday was never complete without a dose of Whispers humour.