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Bibliografie

Conversing With Africa: Politics of Change

Kimaathi Publishing House, Harare, 2002

Hurling Words at Consciousness: Poems

Africa World Press, New Jersey, 2006

Logotherapie. African Poetry Book.

University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2016

Nairobi Heat

Melville International Crime, New York, 2011
Nairobi Heat [Dt.]
Transit Buchverlag, Berlin, 2014
[Ü: Rainer Nitsche]

Black Star Nairobi

Melville International Crime, New York, 2013
Black Star Nairobi [Dt.]
Transit Buchverlag, Berlin, 2015
[Ü: Rainer Nitsche]

Mrs. Shaw

Ohio University Press, Athens, 2015

The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership

University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2018

We Sing the Tizita to Unbury Our Dead

[forthcoming]

Prof. Mukoma wa Ngugi (Kenya/ USA)

The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership, the novels Mrs. Shaw ,Black Star Nairobi, Nairobi Heat, and two books of poetry, Logotherapy and Hurling Words at Consciousness. A new novel, We Sing the Tizita to Unbury Our Dead is forthcoming. Some of his works have been translated into German, Turkish and French.

A member of the African Literature Association’s Executive Council, he is the co-founder of the Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature and co-director of the Global South Project - Cornell. In 2013, New African magazine named him one of the 100 most Influential Africans. In 2015 he was a juror for the Writivism Short Story Prize and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He co-edited with Prof. Laura Murpohy, a Special Issue of New Orleans Review titled The African Literary Hustle.

Mukoma holds a PHD in English from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, an MA in Creative Writing from Boston University and a BA in English and Political Science from Albright College. In 2009, he was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing and in 2010 for the Penguin Prize for African Writing for his novel manuscript, The First and Second Books of Transition (Mrs. Shaw). The German translation of Nairobi Heat was named the 2014 Crime Book of the Season by Buchkultur.

A former co-editor of Pambazuka News and political columnist for the BBC Focus on Africa Magazine, Mukoma's columns have also appeared in The Guardian, International Herald Tribune, Ebony.com, Chimurenga, Los Angeles Times, South African Labour Bulletin, Africa is a Country, and Business Daily Africa. He has been a guest on Democracy Now, NPR, Al Jazeera and the BBC World Service. He is currently a columnist for the popular This is Africa.

His essays have been published in World Literature Today, LA Review of Books, The World Today, The Black Commentator, Progressive Magazine and Radical History Review. His short stories have been published in Wasafiri, African Writing, Kenyon Review and St. Petersburg Review, and his poems in the New York Quarterly, Mythium, Brick Magazine, Kwani? and Tin House Magazine amongst other publications. In 2016, he wrote an eight part play radio play, Drugs to Kill, Drug to Cure for Deutsche Welle that was translated into Portuguese, Lingala, Kiswahili, Hausa and French.

Mukoma Wa Ngugi was born in 1971 in Evanston, Illinois, and grew up in Kenya before returning to the United States for his undergraduate and graduate education. He is the son of world-renowned African writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o.

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