Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye: Mother Africa, born in Southampton
Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye was a prolific writer and preferred using her old typewriter. PHOTO | FILE
World-class artists and writers occupy a terrain where class-consciousness trumps ethnicity. It is a place where the elites who live in gated neighbourhoods cannot go.
As early as the mid-l950s, the seeds of Kenya’s plutocratic postcolonial state were being sown, providing the framework, context and life-long concern of Kenya’s foremost public intellectual: Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye.
