Meja Mwangi Books

Meja Mwangi is a Kenyan novelist whose work often explores poverty, social inequality, and the pressures of urban life. His best-known books include *Kill Me Quick*, about two young men struggling to survive in Nairobi,…

Meja Mwangi is a Kenyan novelist whose work often explores poverty, social inequality, and the pressures of urban life. His best-known books include *Kill Me Quick*, about two young men struggling to survive in Nairobi, and *Going Down River Road*, which portrays life among the city’s working poor. He has also written about Kenya’s colonial past in *Carcase for Hounds*. Across his fiction, Mwangi brings attention to people and communities often pushed to the margins.