Kithaka wa Mberia is a Professor of Linguistics and Languages at the University of Nairobi. He has also taught and lived on four continents, namely, Africa, North America, Europe and Asia. He is a poet and a playwright wring in Kiswahili which is Africa’s largest indigenous language. He has also published seven anthologies of poetry and five plays. Three of his plays, namely, Kifo Kisimani, Natala and Maua Kwenye Jua la Asubuhi, have been performed at the Kenya National Theatre, Nairobi, as well as elsewhere in the country. The last two of the plays have also been performed in a number of locations in Tanzania. His play, Kifo Kisimani, was a compulsory examination (set) book for secondary school students in Kenya from 2005 to 2012. His second play, Natala, was a Teachers Training Colleges (Kenya) set book between 2005 and 2015.
Kifo Kisimani
Kifo Kisimani, is a play that highlights a dictatorial leadership where bad governance, alienation of public land for rewarding to cronies, extreme arrogance, violation of human rights and misplaced confidence are the order of the day. Against that backdrop is a group of young citizens convinced that they can change society for the better and they intend to so through conscious mass action. By the end of the play, their efforts pay-off and the old system of misrule is relegated to the dustbin of history
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