Mugo, Micere Githae (1942–)
Mugo, Micere Githae (1942–)
Kenyan poet, playwright and educator. Born 1942 in Baricho, Kirinyaga District, Kenya; University of Makerere, Uganda, BA; University of New Brunswick, Canada, MA, PhD.
Joined staff at University of Nairobi (1973), becoming the 1st female dean of the Faculty of the Arts (1978); exiled from Kenya for political reasons (1982), became a citizen of Zimbabwe (1984); taught in US, Canada, and Zimbabwe; works, which reflect Marxism and are concerned with conditions in Kenya and other African countries, include My People, Sing! (1976), Daughter of My People (1976), The Long Illness of Ex-Chief Kiti (1976), (with Ngugi wa Thiong'o) The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (1976), Visions of Africa: The Fiction of Chinua Achebe, Margaret Laurence, Elspeth Huxley and Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1978), and My Mother's Poem and Other Songs: Songs and Poems (1994).