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Muthoni Likimani is a Kenyan writer and activist. She was born in 1926 in Murang'a District, Kenya. She is best known for her novel, The River and the Source, which won the 1995 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in Africa. Likimani was educated at Alliance Girls High School and the University of Nairobi. She has worked as a teacher, a journalist, and a civil servant. She has also been active in the women's movement in Kenya, and was a founding member of the Federation of Women Lawyers in Kenya. Likimani has written several books, including novels, short stories, and plays. Her works have been translated into several languages, including French, German, and Spanish. She has also been awarded several honors, including the Order of the Grand Warrior of Kenya in 2002. Likimani is 97 years old and her net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

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Born 1926
Birthday 1926
Birthplace Murang'a District, Kenya
Nationality Kenya

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2007

In 2007, she received the World YWCA Council Award in recognition of dedicated leadership for her involvement as a Women's Rights Activist. In 2014 she was appointed Peace Ambassador in Kenya of The International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace (IFLAC).

1989

A Kikuyu, she married the Masai Dr Jason Clement Likimani, whom she met when he was the Medical Officer of Health at Fort Hall (now Murang'a) District General Hospital. She has said: "He had been with my brother, Ngumba, at Makerere University College and he used to come home. He was the only African medical practitioner allowed access to detention camps to treat detainees. And during our visits I was not allowed inside the camps. I would converse across the barbed wire and would sneak in and out letters to detainees’ relatives. That is how I became an unofficial letter carrier even though my husband did not know." They had four children. Her husband died in 1989.

1980

In the 1980s, Likimani became a Nairobi city councillor, which position she held until the government replaced the council with a city commission. Her autobiography, Fighting Without Ceasing, was published in 2005.

1974

Her first novel, They Shall Be Chastised, was published in 1974, followed by What Does a Man Want? in the same year. In 1985 her third and most important book appeared, Passbook Number F. 47927: Women and Mau Mau in Kenya, its title a reference to her identity number during the Mau Mau struggle. It is a fictional work that dramatizes the roles women played and the strategies they adopted in their daily lives during the fight for freedom.

1926

Muthoni Gachanja Likimani (born 1926) is a Kenyan activist and writer, who has published works of both fiction and non-fiction, as well as children's books. In her career she has also been a broadcaster, actress, teacher and publisher. She was the first Kenyan beauty queen, the first African to establish a public relations firm in Kenya and one of the country's earliest female authors.

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