Meja Mwangi

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1974
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • Carcase for Hounds

    Carcase for Hounds is a novel by Kenyan writer Meja Mwangi first published in 1974. The novel concerns the Mau Mau liberation struggle during the latter days of British colonial rule and attempts, by the actions of the main protagonists, to show how ...

  • Cockroach Dance Longman

  • Striving for the Wind

    Set in Kenya, this portrayal of post-colonial decadence features the newly wealthy black landowner, Baba Pesa, who clashes with his family, friends and neighbours as he attempts to gain financial dominance of his region....

  • The Mzungu Boy

    Winner, Children's Africana Book Award - Best Book for Older ReadersFor young Kariuki, life in a small village in central Kenya is one great adventure. And when he meets Nigel life becomes even more interesting. Nigel is from England and he has come ...

  • The Boy Gift

    "You will not believe the evil that has fallen on this valley. You cannot imagine the sadness, and the madness, that a little boy has brought on us. People have gone wild with talk of magic and witchcraft, and some are ready to commit murder over a b...

  • Mama Dudu the Insect Woman

  • BABA PESA - STRIVING FOR THE WIND

    Baba Pesa is the wealthiest man in Laikipia. He owns all the land for as far as the eye can see and wants more. Money calls him Dad, and he cannot get enough of it. His dropout son, Juda Pesa, a self-proclaimed market philosopher, has elected himself...

  • The Big Chiefs

    Men would talk, as men, about love and money and power and politics and, acting learned, they would try to outdo one another with their knowledge and their understanding of the political realities and the absurd policies, that bred hate and poverty a...

  • The Cockroach Dance

    THE COCKROACH DANCE Dusman Gonzaga shares a squalid apartment with misery and cockroaches. The old building belongs to a wealthy slumlord with a heart of stone and Dusman’s neighbours include garbage collectors, street hawkers, criminals, wise men ...



  • Crossroads - The Last Plague

    Crossroads is on the verge of extinction by Aids. The disease has wiped out nearly all the able-bodied inhabitants, leaving behind helpless orphans and desperate old people. There seems to be no hope for survival. The only hope lies in Janet, the ...

  • Mama Dudu - The Insect Woman

    Ruben’s brief is simple. He is to go where she goes, shoot what she says, and exactly as she says. It works fine, until they cross a border that is not in their plans, and they are arrested with a newborn baby that does not look like either of them...

  • WEAPON OF HUNGER

    Arrakan is the mother of calamity and great aunt to human suffering; a land that spawns wars, genocides, plagues and famines, human disasters of biblical proportions, and spews them onto the world with the wantonness of mad volcano. It is a perseveri...

  • RAFIKI - MAN GUITAR

    Rafiki, an out-of-luck musician, turned bounty hunter and debt collector, volunteers to help a failing shopkeeper find his debtors and collect the money they owe him. However, the mile long list of loan defaulters comprises of the town’s poorest re...

  • Baba Pesa: Striving for the Wind

    Tyrannical landowner, Baba Pesa, owns almost all the farmland around, yet he wants his poor neighbour's plot. Not content to be merely the wealthiest man in Laikipia, he sets out to force the man to sell and move out. But Pesa is up against not just ...

  • Down River Road

    Ben is a man on the move - in bars, in night clubs and in seedy pubs down Nairobi's River Road. On one of these occasions he meets Wini, a single mother trying to make it in the big city. They live hard, as man and wife, for a while, surviving at the...

  • Christmas Without Tusker

    CHRISTMAS WITHOUT TUSKER When their women close the bars and force them to spend Christmas at home, Kambi men realise they have made a big mistake allowing women to run the traditionally male-controlled bar business. There is anxiety and disaffection...

  • Bush Doctor

    His brief was simple. He was to go wherever she went, do whatever she said and however she said it. The Maasai Mara was no part of his brief, nor were any man-eaters bigger than a mosquito. The Maasai Mara was not even on his map - Vasco da Gama's Ro...

  • Going Down River Road

    After an exhausting day of hard labour, Ben finds oblivion in the seedy bars and clubs of River Road â€" anything to leave his cockroach-infested rooms and ignore the reality of living paycheck to paycheck.

    At times, it's difficult to ...

  • Kill Me Quick

    Meja and Maina arrive in the city confident their high school diplomas will lead to employment and success. However, they are unable to find jobs and they end up in the backstreets, withe the homeless poor. Brutally separated, they meet years later b...



  • Baba Pesa

    Baba Pesa is the wealthiest man in Laikipia. He owns all the land for as far as the eye can see and wants more. Money calls him Dad, and he cannot get enough of it. His dropout son, Juda Pesa, a self-proclaimed market philosopher, has elected himself...

  • Mama Dudu

    Ruben’s brief is simple. He is to go where she goes, shoot what she says, and exactly as she says. It works fine, until they cross a border that is not in their plans, and they are arrested with a newborn baby that does not look like either of them...

  • Rafiki Man Guitar

    Rafiki, an out-of-luck musician, turned bounty hunter and debt collector, volunteers to help a failing shopkeeper find his debtors and collect the money they owe him. However, the mile long list of loan defaulters comprises of the town’s poorest re...

  • Crossroads

    The plague is killing off Crossroads leaving orphans and old people to fend for themselves. It seems they will all perish, unless it is stopped fast, but the community is in denial. Hope lies in Janet, the lone community health activist who has made ...

  • GAZELLE

    Hope is reborn in spring in Ohio. That is what she says to make him stay and be hers for always. He drops his plans to flee a life of despair, find a warmer place, reinvent himself and start afresh. He suspends his dream and stays to see what spring ...

  • KASIM THE KOMEDIAN

    The clan has buried great men before, but none as great as Caesar. A charismatic leader respected for his courage, honesty and integrity, Caesar was denounced and banished to spend his last days in loneliness forgotten by his people and the Governmen...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Meja Mwangi has published 25 books.

Meja Mwangi does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, KASIM THE KOMEDIAN, was published in February 2023.

The first book by Meja Mwangi, Carcase for Hounds, was published in June 1974.

No. Meja Mwangi does not write books in series.
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