Renowned playwright, author, activist, instructor and poet Professor Micere Githae Mugo has died. Mugo died on Friday at the age of 81.
Micere Mugo will be remembered as one of the foremost inspirational writers of all time who wrote from the African consciousness with profound effect. Anything she wrote, was drawn from the consciousness of their realities with a stark touch spirit of stoic determination.
Some of her notable books include ‘My mother’s poem and other songs’ and ‘songs and poems’.
Mugo was a political activist who fought against human rights abuses in Kenya. The activism led to her arrest and she was forced out of the country in 1982 after an attempted coup.
Mugo went to Zimbabwe and continued writing. In 1991, her second work of literary criticism, African Orature and Human Rights appeared.
Mugo’s publications include six books, a play co-authored with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and three monographs. Mugo was a founder of the Pan African Community of Central New York and one of the organisation’s first presidents.
She was also the founder and former president of the Syracuse-based United Women of Africa Organisation.
At the National Theatre on January 10, 2023 artists, human rights and social justice activists, and feminists, gathered to present Professor Micere Githae Mugo with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
