By Walter Bgoya: Chakava (1946 – 2024) is best remembered for publishing some of the giants of East African literature – Okot p’Bitek, Ali Mazrui, Meja Mwangi, Marjorie Oludhe-Macgoye, and most notably (and riskily), Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Henry Chakava’s passing is, without a doubt, the end of an era of a protracted struggle by the […]
