Meja Mwangi: Reclusive novelist who took readers across the world

If there is one thing that amazes keen readers about Meja Mwangi writing, it was his ability to immerse his imagination into vastly different settings. The immensely influential writer, who died on December 11, could vividly capture the lives and struggles of urban working-class poor folk as he does in Going Down River Road.

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