How Francis Imbuga’s typewriter jump started my career

Standard Group CEO Orlando Lyomu receives a gift from Prof Francis Imbuga's daughter Doris Mbugua during the launch of an exhibition of the writer's works at the Kenya National Archives in Nairobi on Monday. Looking on is former Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Vice Chancellor Mabel Imbuga. [David Njaaga, Standard]

Writer King’ori Gachoka was 22 years old when he first met celebrated author Francis Imbuga.

Things were so bad for the budding writer such that he could not afford a typewriter.