Meja Mwangi

Meja Mwangi is the pen name of David Dominic Mwangi (1948–2025), a Kenyan writer who also worked in the film industry on screenplays, assistant directing and casting. Mwangi's novels include Carcase for Hounds, about a small band of forest fighters during the Mau Mau uprising, and the coming-of-age and contemporary fiction of Going Down River Road, Kill Me Quick and Striving for the Wind. The list also takes in The Cockroach Dance and the historical novel The Return of Shaka.