Asaph Ng’ethe Macua

Asaph Ng’ethe Macua (b. 1930, Karura, Kenya) attended Makerere University, Kampala, in 1951. After graduating, Macua worked in the Department of Community Development in Kampala before returning to Kenya in 1958. From 1960, he worked as chief artist in the East African Common Services Organisation which later became the Kenya Literature Bureau, until his retirement in 1967. Selected solo and group exhibitions include those at Makerere University, Kampala; Uganda Museum, Kampala; Chemichemi, Nairobi (1964); Mankind and Nature, Goethe-Institut, Nairobi (1992); Alliance Franc¸aise, Nairobi (1993); and a retrospective at the National Museum in Nairobi (2019). He published his autobiography From Misery to Joy: A Journey of Endurance in 2019.