Kenyan literary giant Meja Mwangi rests
When Meja Mwangi wrote about the dispossessed, the hustling, the broken and the stubbornly hopeful, he was not merely inventing characters. He was holding up a mirror to post-independence Kenya and daring the nation to look. With his death on December 11, 2025, in Malindi, Kenya, at the age of 78, East Africa has lost…