Mukoma Ngũgĩ

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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 (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/).

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