Mulwa toiled at Kenyatta University for the better part of 40 years, teaching, mentoring, writing, performing and administering creativity.
Respect and support of these arts, and especially drama is the best birthday present we can give to our dear grand old man of the arts.
David Kakuta Mulwa, one of Kenya’s most iconic creative artists, turned 80 on Thursday, April 9, this week. His host of friends, fans, former students and lovers of the arts will convene in Nairobi this weekend to fete and celebrate him. I wanted tell you a few things about this remarkable man and my very special relationship with him.
But since David Mulwa joins me on the “eighth floor” amid truly dramatic events around us, I thought I should just share with you a few basic things about the performing arts, and the arts in general, most of which I picked up from David Mulwa. My remarks, I hope, will put in some perspective the stunning and disturbing goings-on around our and Mulwa’s beloved Schools and Colleges Drama Festival.
