How to be Kenyan by Wahome Mutahi

About Wahome Mutahi

How to be Kenyan by Wahome Mutahi

How to Be a Kenyan is based on Wahome Mutahi's immensely popular newspaper columns. (Encyclopedia Britannica) For over two decades, Mutahi's "Whispers" column in the Sunday Nation was the most widely read piece of writing in East Africa — a weekly ritual for millions of Kenyans who relied on his satirical eye to make sense of the country's political and social theatre. This collection gathers some of the finest of those columns, offering a portrait of Kenyan life in all its comic, infuriating, and irresistible particularity. From corrupt traffic police to the social rituals of Nairobi's middle class, from presidential speechmaking to church politics, nothing escapes Mutahi's affectionate but unsparing attention. It is a book that makes Kenyans feel seen, understood, and able to laugh at themselves — which is its own form of grace.