Mukoma Wa Ngugi

Mukoma Wa Ngugi

Mukoma Wa Ngugi (born in 1971) is a poet from Kenya.

Ngugi is the author of the books "Hurling Words at Consciousness" and "Conversing with Africa: Politics of Change".

Ngugi's poems have appeared in "Brick Magazine", "Smartish Pace", "Teeth in the Wind", "One Hundred Days", "New Black Writing" and "Réflexions sur le Génocide rwandais/Ten years later: Reflections on the Rwandan Genocide". He has also written political essays that have appeared in Zimbabwe’s "Herald", Kenya’s "Daily Nation", East African, "Kwani Journal", zmag.org amongst others.

Ngugi earned a BA in political science from Albright College and an MA in creative writing from Boston University. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Post-Colonial Theory at UW-Madison.

Mukoma Wa Ngugi is the coordinator for the Toward an Africa without Borders conferences.

Books

*"Conversing with Africa: Politics of Change" ISBN 0-7974-2561-6
*"Hurling Words at Consciousness" ISBN 1-59221-463-0

External links

* [http://www.writers.net/writers/12894?PHPSESSID=884bd41b17d86b48116a180d78a24222 Writers.net Profile]
* [http://african.lss.wisc.edu/all/Studconference/index.shtml Toward an Africa without Borders Organization]
* [http://www.newint.org/issue369/mix.htm New Internationalist] review of "Conversing with Africa: Politics of Change"


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