Francis imbuga autobiography of benjamin

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Francis imbuga autobiography of benjamin

Create a new account. Log In. Browse Biographies. Quiz Are you a biography pro? Francis Imbuga married Mabel Olubayo on December 22, The marriage produced five children. Back to Profile. Photos Works. Main Photo. Francis Imbuga Francis D. School period Add photo. Career Add photo. Achievements Add photo. Membership Add photo. Awards Add photo.

Other Photos Add photo. Imbuga started his career as an actor at Kenya Broadcasting Corporation in He left this post in and in he became a lecturer in the Department of Educational Communication and Technology at the University of Nairobi. Imbuga started writing plays in Imbuga died [ 6 ] on the night of Sunday November 18,after suffering a stroke.

This article about a Kenyan writer or poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Contents move to sidebar hide. If follows is the story of Thori and his wife Thoriwa who return from the other world to deliver a succinct message that neighbours must stamp out resentment, kill the blame-game and seek reconciliation. Nairobi Kenya: Longhorn, In his last play published posthumously the late Francis Imbuga presents the dramatic dialogue of his characters as mind games.

In addition to using a narrator, Sikia Macho, to fill us in on the broken politics of Kafira, centring around detention without trial, Imbuga deliberately delays the inciting action, the formation of the Green Party of Kafira which then challenges the hitherto political monolith called the National Party. The candidate of the new party, former detainee Pastor Mgei, wins the election, and thereby dethrones the so-called Chief of Chiefs.

In The Green Cross of Kafira, Imbuga, with a renewed sense of urgency, addresses the theme of dictatorship in Africa, and completes his trilogy of the Kafira plays which begins with Betrayal in the City followed by Man of Kafira. Publication Info: Imbuga F. D and Kurtz Rogers. The Green Cross of Kafira. Nairobi Kenya: Bookmark Africa. Shrine of Tears.

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