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Argwings and the Lamplighters
hm books, 2008
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Gun Runner
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hm books, 2007
ISBN 978 - 0 - 9796476 - 0 - 4
The Big Chiefs
hm books, 2007
ISBN 978 - 0 - 9796476  -3 - 5
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Crossroads
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Power
hm books 2009
ISBN 978 - 0 - 9796476 - 9 - 7
Kill Me Quick
SCREENPLAY
hm books, 2009
ISBN 978 - 0 - 9820126 - 1 - 1
Down River Road
hm books, 2013
The Cockroach Dance
hm books 2013
ISBN 978 - 0 - 9796476 - 2 - 8
Mountain Of Bones
hm books 2012
ISBN  978 - 0 - 9796476 - 7 - 3
The Mzungu Boy
groundwood books
2005
Dukuza
hm books,
Hard Road
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Baba Pesa
hm books, 2013
ISBN 978 - 0 - 9796476 - 1 - 1
Weapon Of Hunger
hm books 2013
ISBN 978 - 0 - 9796476 - 5 - 9
Winds Whisper
hm books 2013
ISBN  978 - 0 - 9796476 - 6 - 6
Kill Me Quick
NOVEL
hm books, 2013
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Argwings and the
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The Boy Gift
hm books, 2006
ISBN 978 - 0 -9820126 -3 -5

Meja Mwangi began his writing
career in the 1970s, a decade
after his more well-known
compatriots such as Ngugi wa
Thiong'o and Grace Ogot had been
publishing their works.  When he
burst onto the scene with the
award-winning
Kill Me Quick in
1973, Mwangi was hailed in
various quarters as a rising star in
the East African literary
constellation who was helping to
disprove Taban lo Liyong's
oft-cited claim that East Africa was
a literary desert (Taban 1965,
Nazareth 1976).  Since then, Meja
Mwangi has gone on to establish
himself as one of the most prolific
of Kenyan writers, publishing
eleven novels in seventeen years
in addition to short stories,
children's books and working with
a variety of projects in film.
Mwangi's works have received
awards in Kenya and abroad, they
have been translated into six
languages, and there are film
versions of two of his novels.

While Mwangi has touched on all
of these concerns, we might divide
his work into three major
categories.  The first comprises his
Mau Mau novels.  For many Kenyan
writers, the armed resistance to
British colonialism in Kenya, which
came to be known as the Mau Mau
revolt and reached its height in the
1950s, was a far-reaching
experience.  
Weapon of Hunger is perhaps
Meja Mwangi's best book yet.
The picture he paints of the
relentless quest for modern
Africa is grim. What is most
depressing, is that there
seem to be no  solutions.  
Western philanthropists, such
as Jack Rivers, are portrayed
in a favourable light as sincere
people. All their energies,
however, are expended on
trying to understand Africa's
problems and once they
understand them they realise
that the problems are beyond
them. As for the Africans
themselves, they could have
provided solutions, but since
they are lined up in warring
factions, that is impossible.  
While the two sides fight on
to the finish, will million of
ordinary people continue to
starve to dead? That is the
questions which Meja Mwangi
asks himself and which he
asks the readers of Weapon.

Lyne Mansure
Weekly Review
"... i find this novel The Big
Chiefs a great piece of
literature, impressive and
despairingly reflecting the
realities, despite its ending. I
actually virtually saw it as a
piece of theatre and could
very well imagine it performed
on stage.  It has a power
reminding me of W
aiting for
Godot".

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Rafki - Man Guitar
hm books 2013
ISBN 978 -0- 98920126 - 2 - 8
Blood Brothers
hm books, 2009
ISBN 978 - 0 - 9820126 -0 - 4
Wood Carriers - by Anne-Louise
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Mwangi's urban trilogv--Kill Me
Quick. Going Down River
Road, and The Cockroach
Dance—is a compelling and
innovative set of texts dealing with
what is arguably the most
pressing contemporary social
problem in Kenya:  the rapid
urbanization the country has
experienced since independence
in 1963 and its accompanying
social problems.  It is fair to say
that critical acclaim for Mwangi as
a writer has come predominantly
from these tales of city life.