Kenyan leaders owe it to the nation to write biographies

Henry Munene

On Tuesday, President Uhuru Kenyatta was in Murang’a for the burial of George Ndung’u Mwicigi, who served as Kandara MP for nearly 20 years and was assistant minister for Agriculture in the Kenyatta and Moi governments. While Mwicigi was well known in his time, younger Kenyans might not know much about the man who traversed the world seeking funds for the Kandara water project.

Personally, I did not know much about him until a publisher asked me for a second opinion on the old man’s autobiography.