Rights Movement, as well as Milestones - A showcase for African Poetry. He has written two plays. The first, Role Play – A Journey Into The Kenyan Psyche, was published in 2005 (MvuleAfrica Publishers; ) and hailed by Newsweek International as “an unapologetic look at racial stereotypes in modern Kenya". The second, Minister…Karibu!, was seen by Nairobi audiences in October 2007. In Minister…Karibu! Sibi-Okumu satirises (somewhat prophetically for Kenya) the risks of selfish politics to social stability. He has since added Tom Mboya: Master of Mass Management, for young readers, to his published literary oeuvre (Sasa Sema/Longhorn Publishers). In October 2009 John Sibi-Okumu [5] directed the musical Mo Faya, shown at the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival. As a print journalist he has written for Kenyan newspapers and magazines under the pseudonym Mwenye Sikio and, for three years was on the editorial board of the quarterly journal AWAAZ - Voices of the South Asian Diaspora ([www.awaazmagazine.com]), for which he continues to write a regular column: “Alternative Angle”. To add a further, word-driven string to his bow, he has taken on assignments as an editor, most frequently of scientific research journals. Throughout his adult life, Sibi-Okumu has welcomed opportunities for lending his talents benevolently to charitable and social welfare causes. In 2002, he was given the honorific title of Chevalier (Knight) in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, for services to French culture in Kenya. Apart from his achievements as a teacher, he has a considerable reputation as a Man of the Arts. Alluding to his accomplishments as a teacher and educator, he is endearingly referred to with the Swahili honorific Mwalimu ("teacher") in Kenyan society. Filmography References External links Kenyan male film actors Living people Alumni of Lenana School Kenyan writers Kenyan male writers Kenyan male television actors 20th-century Kenyan male actors Kenyan radio journalists Kenyan television journalists Kenyan radio presenters Kenyan television presenters 1954 births