It is the Gikuyu version that won the first Noma Award for Kenya in 1984. Through Gakaara Press, he has published numerous primes in Gikuyu, Dholuo, Kalenjin, Kiswahili, Kikamba, and many other Kenyan languages. He used his merger resources in the advancement of knowledge. It is always implicated in power relationships expressed, through particular historical struggles. It is active in engaging education, law, medicine, social welfare and mass media and making possible the subject positions that people use to negotiate their sense of self.
Language is active in reconstruction and retaining of suppressed memories.
This he had no doubt. Gakaara did indeed come to voice. He was a teacher, writer and cultural icon. The bilingual edition will be released soon by the Institute of Global Studies at the State university of New York, Binghamton. We sadly must now dedicate ourselves to keeping Gakaara alive through his works.