Fadhili Jimmy Williams Gathu Fadhili William Mdawida (November 11, 1938 – Jimmy Gathu is one of those personalities that Dr. Wangui February 11, 2001), often referred to simply as doesn’t need much in the way of introductions. He Fadhili William, was a Kenyan recording artist and has graced our television screens, radio waves, Wa Goro composer. He was born to Halima Wughanga and billboards, functions and campaigns for more than Ramadhan Mwamburi in Taita-Taveta District near 25 years. He is also one of the earliest known Wangui Wa Goro is a widely acclaimed translator, (1990), from Gikuyu into English, as well as Mombasa. His father, who died when Fadhili was rappers on the Kenyan scene. writer, poet, academic, cultural curator, editor with a Véronique Tadjo’s poetry book A vol d’oiseau (As the only seven, was a traditional musician. Additionally, great passion for languages, literature and Crow Flies, Heinemann African Writers Series, 2001) his siblings – Ali Harrison Mwataku, Esther John His most notable work is his influence as a intersectional freedom, so obviously she made our from French. Her writing encompasses poetry, essays, and Mumba Charo- were also musicians, so his champion of fidelity and safe sex with his iconic info- list. She was born in Kenya but left to study in short stories, fiction and nonfiction. Her short story upbringing allowed his passion and talent to flourish. mercial “Mpango wa Kando” which became a Europe for her undergraduate studies in Modern “Heaven and Earth” (Macmillan) has been taught on movement in its own right and is still a Languages and Economics at the University of the Kenyan curriculum. She has also been an active He is best known for being the first person, and commonly used term in Kenya. He has also acted Leicester. Owing to her activism and involvement in campaigner for human rights in Africa and Europe and arguably the best, to record Adam Salim’s song in the well-known films Rafiki (2018), State House human rights activism for democracy in Kenya, co-edited with Kelly Coate and Suki Ali the book “Malaika” which he recorded with his band The (2014) and Nairobi Half-Life (2012). Not one to ever Global Feminist Politics: Identities in a Changing Jambo Boys around 1963. The song itself was be left behind, he has recently reinvented himself Wa Goro lived in exile in England for many years. World (Routledge, 2001). Honestly, all her work would written in 1945 and talks about a beautiful lover and is working on building a TV station. We know She has translated the works of award-winning au- take up the entirety of this list so we end with that whose parents disapproved of their relationship and the term “household name” gets thrown around a lot thors, including Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s satire even now, at 60 years old, she continues to be a who was married off to a wealthier man (story of our but Jimmy Gathu is one. Matigari and his children’s works Njamba Nene and badass, keynote speaker worldwide. lives). the Flying Bus (1986) and Njamba Nene’s Pistol 50nd3k4 374 50nd3k4 374 50nd3k4 375 50nd3k4 375