Mugo Gatheru
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Mugo Gatheru
R. Mugo Gatheru (born 21 August 1925) is a Kenyan writer. His autobiographical A Child of Two Worlds describes growing up in colonial Kenya.[1]
Gatheru was born to a squatter family living on a European farm. He attended medical school in Nairobi, but was forced to continue his education abroad after he protested the treatment of Africans by the colonial rulers. After a year in India, he spent eight years from 1950 in the United States before studying law in England. He returned to Kenya when it gained independence in 1963.[2]
Works
- A Child of Two Worlds: a Kikuyu's story, 1925
- Kenya : from colonization to independence, 1888-1970, 2005
- From beneath the tree of life : a story of the Kenyan people of Ngai, 2005
References
- ^ Simon Gikandi, 'Gatheru, Mugo', in Gikandi, ed., Encyclopedia of African Literature. Routledge; 2002. ISBN 978-0-415-23019-3. Reprinted online here
- ^ Fetter, B., Colonial Rule in Africa, 1979, p.191
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