Micere Githae Mugo Playwright, poet, writer, educator and activist, Micere does it all. She has always stood for what she thought was right and she never hesitated to question the authority and demand for the people’s rights. Her inquisitiveness brushed the regime of President Daniel Moi the wrong way and she was exiled in 1982 for it. After being stripped of her Kenyan nationality, she took refuge in Zimbabwe and became a citizen there, though she was welcomed by several other African states such as Mozambique and Tanzania. Born in 1942, in Baricho, Kirinyaga District, to two teachers who were politically active in Kenya’s fight for Binyavanga independence, she was encouraged to always speak her mind. She joined Limuru Girls’ High School becoming the first black student in what had previously been a segregated academy. She was informed that permission Wainaina for other African students to join would be based on her performance. After Limuru and Alliance, Micere found her way into Makerere University in Uganda where she studied drama and even won an award for best actress “Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the at the Uganda Drama Festival. She went on to teach at the Department of Literature at the University of cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won Nairobi as a senior lecturer and Dean until 1982. She would later teach at the University of Zimbabwe. Today the Nobel prize.” she is a Professor of African American studies at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York Binyavanga Wainaina was a larger than life contemporary African literature, offering training character who stands out, not in just his opportunities and establishing global networks. “Writing can be a lifeline, expecially when your idiosyncratic dress habits, but as a foremost witty Through his short stories, essays, and the existence has been denied, especially when you have contrarian, a sharp intellect and a beautiful writer. Not award-winning memoir “I Am A Homosexual, Mum” been left on the margins, especially when your life and one to be outshone, he was also one of the biggest Wainaina disassembled societal dynamics, parsed game-changers when it came to championing gay Kenyan social and creative life and called all to political process of growth have been subjected to attempts at rights and the founding editor of “Kwani?” a regional action. His death brought an end to one of the most strangulation.” literary hub, committed to the growth of the region’s storied careers in contemporary Kenyan and African creative industry through publishing and distributing literature. 50nd3k4 382 50nd3k4 383 50nd3k4 382 50nd3k4 383