Mukoma Ngũgĩ

Mukoma Wa Ngũgĩ (born, 1971) is a Kenyan poet and author.

Ngũgĩ 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" ( [http://www.newint.org/issue369/mix.htm 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.

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 in Zimbabwe’s "Herald", Kenya’s "Daily Nation", "East African", "Kwani Journal", zmag.org amongst others. He is the Coordinator for the Toward an Africa without Borders Organization (http://towardanafricawithoutborders.org/).

ome articles and links

* [http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=8694 New Orleans and the Third World]
* [http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=2&ItemID=2726 Africa and the War on Terror]
* [http://www.pambazuka.org/en/issue/204 Kenya: The Constitution as a promissory note]
* [http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=2&ItemID=10101 Fela Kuti: The Music that Would not be Disappeared (book review)]
* [http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=9055 Can Zimbabwe Become Africa’s Cuba?]
* [http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=4491 Conversing With Africa: A ZNet Book Interview]
* [http://www.pambazuka.org/en/issue/188 Pambazuka review of Conversing with Africa]