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Charles Mangua


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Charles Mangua is a Kenyan fiction writer. His novels explore, among other issues, the "hardship and urban poverty" experienced by ordinary people in places such as Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.

Mangua's style is irreverent and often humorous. His early works, Son of Woman (1971) and A Tail in the Mouth (1972), sold more copies than any previous works of literature published in East Africa. His work had an influence on other Kenyan writers and he was awarded the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature for A Tail in the Mouth.
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Average rating: 4.21 · 198 ratings · 18 reviews · 8 distinct works
Son of Woman

4.17 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions
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Kanina and I

4.14 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1994
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Kenyatta's Jiggers

4.46 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2000
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Son of Woman in Mombasa

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