Description
FRANCIS IMBUGA is not only a renowned Kenyan playwright, but is also an actor who has performed in many plays both on stage and on television. He was recipient of the inaugural Kenya National Academy of Sciences Award in Play Writing of 1986. He teaches in the Department of Literature, Kenyatta University.
Among his other plays published in the E.A.E.P. Drama Library are: Betrayal in the City, The Burning of Rags, Game of Silence, The Successor and Aminata.
Man of Kafira is a play of ideas which seriously inquires into matters of truth, love and sincerity; it is a positive challenge to our leaders, which sees life not as a cyclic repetition of tragedies, but rather as a dynamic process capable of creating new people. Using characters who put ‘self’ before
‘society’, Imbuga examines the pervasion of truth and the substitution of love with bestiality in our society. Thus, Man of Kafira is a continuation of the indictiment of evil in Betrayal in the City, but even more, an expression of the author’s belief that there is hope for a better future.
Imbuga in this play employs an engaging style, and presents his ideas without preaching to the audience, and sparing the reader the opportunity to examine himself.
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