He was a Kenyan-Zimbabwean born in Roromo, Limuru, Kenya. He was a social worker but most known for playwrights. He was also a teacher. The playwright, Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want), was co-authored with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and it is about injustices in post-colonial Kenya. He had a diploma in Adult Education at the Institute of Adult Studies, Nairobi University, and worked at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). At the IDS, he did community development with peasants and workers at Kamiriithu, Limuru. With wa Thinongo, they wrote another play, Mother Cry for Me in 1977, but this was deemed hostile to the government, resulting in him fleeing to Zimbabwe. In Harare, he worked for the Zimbabwean Foundation for Education with Production (ZIMFEP) and wrote on Pan-Africanism. His car crashed into a lorry in 2008 in Zimbabwe, and he died aged 57.