Editing Wahome Mutahi (section)

==Beginnings==
Mutahi was equally well known in theatre where he wrote and acted in [[English language|English]]- and [[Gikuyu language|Kikuyu]]-language plays that caricatured Kenya's society and politics using his company ''Igiza Productions''.<ref>[http://www.artmatters.info/theatre/articles/crawls.php Art Matters.info :: flaunting arts and culture in Africa<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> There is a memorial bust of him at the Kenya National Theatre. Outside of Kenya, he wrote humour columns for [[Uganda]]n publications ''[[The Monitor (Uganda)|The Monitor]]'' and ''[[Lugambo]]''.

Among his books are ''Three Days on the Cross'' which won the [[Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature]] (1992), ''Jail Bugs'', ''[[Doomsday (book)|Doomsday]]'', and ''[[How To Be a Kenyan]]'', based on his newspaper columns. Others include ''The Miracle Merchants, Mr Canta, Hassan the Genie, The Ghost of Garba Tula'' and ''Just Wait and See''.