- Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ
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Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ (born, 1971) is a Kenyan poet and author. His father is the author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
Mũkoma holds a BA in Political Science (Albright College) and an MA in Creative Writing (Boston University). He is the author of Conversing with Africa: Politics of Change (reviewed by New Internationalist) and Hurling Words at Consciousness (poetry, Africa World Press, 2006). He is also a columnist for BBC Focus on Africa Magazine and former co-editor of Pambazuka News.
He has published poems in Tin House Magazine, Chiumrenga, Brick Magazine, Smartish Pace, and Teeth in the Wind, One Hundred Days (Barque Press); New Black Writing (John Wiley and Sons); Réflexions sur le Génocide rwandais/Ten years later: Reflections on the Rwandan Genocide, L’Hartman etc.
He has published political essays and columns in the LA Times, Radical History Review, Mail and Guardian, Zimbabwe’s Herald, Kenya’s Daily Nation, East African, Kwani Journal, zmag.org amongst others.
Books
- Conversing with Africa: Politics of Change ISBN 0-7974-2561-6
- Hurling Words at Consciousness ISBN 1-59221-463-0
External links
- Column archive at The Guardian
- Works by or about Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Profile at Mad Poetry
- Profile at Writers.net
- Toward an Africa without Borders Organization
- New Internationalist review of Conversing with Africa: Politics of Change
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