Voicing African Voices

Author

Philo Ikonya

Philo Ikonya is a Kenyan poet, novelist and journalist. She is known for speaking out against injustice and corruption and has written extensively on governance, mass poverty and post-election violence in Kenya. She was arrested several times, and brutally in 2009, for speaking out. Philo is currently Oslo City of Refuge's Guest Writer, and features in the film project by Marion Stalens, Silence or Exile. Philo Ikonya is the author of This Bread of Peace, Out of Prison- Love Song, and Leading the Night. Visit Philo's blog here.

Literature Poetry

Splintering Silence

by Philo Ikonya

In Splintering Silence, Philo Ikonya takes us to the source of her strength and power. Her poems rise from a gamut of experiences and…

Literature Novels and Short Stories

Still Sings the Nightbird

by Philo Ikonya

Do we live inside the breasts of our mothers? In the mind and hearts of two women, indeed at their breasts a nation lives.…

Literature Novels and Short Stories

Kenya, Will You Marry Me?

by Philo Ikonya

On my cell-phone the time is 3.00am. I am not holding a religion in my hand to check the hour, just a cell phone…

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Viviane Koua, (PhD) Department of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Auburn University, Auburn AL. USA on Centres and Peripheries in Literatures: Interrogating Hegemonic Canonism