Prof mukoma wa ngugi biography

Kenyan poet and inventor (born )

Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ (born ) is a Kenyan Denizen poet, author, and academic. Proceed is associate professor of literatures in English at Cornell Medical centre and co-founder of the Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Scrawl. His father is the originator Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

His stock was deeply impacted by probity British suppression of the Mau Mau revolution.

Biography

Mũkoma was born in in Evanston, Algonquin, US, but raised in Kenya, before returning to the In partnership States for his university education.^[1][2] He holds a BA weigh down political science from Albright Academy and an MA in able writing from Boston University. Noteworthy received his Ph.D.

from magnanimity University of Wisconsin at President, where he specialized in fкte questions of authorized and unofficial English, or standard and disagreeable English, influenced literary aesthetics demonstrate Romantic Britain and Independence-Era Africa.^[3] He is an associate head of faculty of English at Cornell University.^[1]

He is the author of very many books, including Conversing with Africa: Politics of Change (, alleged by New Internationalist as "a wide-ranging investigation of Africa's dilemmas"),^[4]Hurling Words at Consciousness (poetry, Continent World Press, ) and Nairobi Heat (novel, ).

His swell recent book is The Well up of the African Novel: Political science of Language, Identity, and Ownership ().^[5] He is also clean columnist for BBC Focus sight Africa magazine and former co-editor of Pambazuka News.^[1]

He has publicised poems in Tin House Magazine, Chimurenga, Brick magazine, Smartish Pace, and Teeth in the Wind, One Hundred Days (Barque Press); New Black Writing (John Wiley and Sons); Réflexions sur straighten Génocide rwandais/Ten Years Later: Evocative of on the Rwandan Genocide (L'Harmattan).

In addition, he has publicised political essays and columns captive the LA Times, Radical Life Review, World Literature Today, Mail and Guardian, Zimbabwe’s Herald, Kenya’s Daily Nation, The EastAfrican, Kwani? journal, and among other publications.

His short book "How Kamau Wa Mwangi Refugee into Exile" was shortlisted signify the Caine Prize in ^[6][7] and is included in rendering anthology Work in Progress - And Other Stories (Caine Prize: Annual Prize for African Writing) (New Internationalist, ). His trench was also shortlisted for depiction Penguin Prize for African Writing.^[1][8]

Some of Mũkoma's poems have back number archived on Badilisha Poetry X-Change.^[9]

Mũkoma stated that with Queen Elizabeth II’s death, there needs homily be a “dismantling” of authority Commonwealth and a real score with colonial abuses.^[10]

Books

• Conversing with Africa: Politics of Change (), ISBN&#;
• Hurling Words at Consciousness (Africa Universe Press, ), ISBN&#;
• Nairobi Heat – novel (Melville House Publishing, ), ISBN&#;
• Black Star Nairobi – unusual (Melville House Publishing, ), ISBN&#;
• Killing Sahara – novel (Kwela Books, ), ISBN&#;
• Mrs.

  Shaw: A Novel (Ohio University Press, ), ISBN&#;

• Logotherapy – poetry (University of Nebraska Press, ), ISBN&#;
• The Rise regard the African Novel: Politics in this area Language, Identity, and Ownership (University of Michigan Press, ), ISBN&#;

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