The biography of fallen novelist Legson Kayira I will try has been re-launched with new revelations and is now on Amazon selling as an e-book.. According to Bright Malopa, CEO of Rivonia Media group, the group that has funded a reprint of the 1965 bestseller, the official launch of the book was held at Riverside Sun Hotel […]
Malawian author Legson Kayira, who died last week, was hailed as a pioneer and a brave man during his burial at the West London Crematorium, Kensal Green in London on Tuesday afternoon. Kayira is famed for his 1964 award-winning novel I Will Try in which he documents his adventure when he walked a distance of over 4,500 […]
“No man is an island” the poet, John Donne, once wrote; and in the measure of the life of Legson Kayira, the adage is especially true, as I learned of the death of this great man today. For Kayira was not just a young man of yesterday’s moments, but someone whose life touched others in […]
Malawi’s renowned writer and scholar, Legson Kayira has died in London, UK aged 72. Kayira was exiled by dictator Kamuzu Banda at the age of 17 for satirizing his rule. At the time of his death, Kayira was a professor of Political Science at the University of Cambridge. His novels; The Looming Shadow, Jingala, The […]