Wahome Mutahi

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wahome Mutahi (October 24, 1954 July 22, 2003) was a beloved humourists of Kenya. He was popularly known as Whispers after the name of the column he wrote for The Daily Nation from 1982 to 2003, offering a satirical view of the trials and tribulations of Kenyan life.Mutahi was equally well-known in theatre where he wrote and acted in English- and Kikuyu-language plays that caricatured Kenya''s society and politics using his company Igiza Productions.A memorial burst of the late Wahome has been erected at the Kenya National Theatre. Outside of Kenya, he wrote humour columns for Ugandan publications The Monitor and Lugambo.Among his books are Three days on the Cross which won the prestigious Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature (1992), Jail bugs, Doomsday, and the immensely popular How to be a Kenyan based on his newspaper columns. Others include The MiracleMerchants, Mr Canta, HAssan the Genie, The Ghost of Garba Tula and Just wait and see.