Voicing African Voices

Author

Wanjohi wa Makokha

Wanjohi wa Makokha (b.1979) lives and writes in Neukölln, Berlin. He teaches courses in African, South Asian and Caribbean literature at the Freie University of Berlin (FUB). He is a committed literary critic with several publications to his credit including Negotiating Afropolitanism: Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Folklore (Rodopi: 2011) co-edited with Jennifer Wawrzinek.

Literature Poetry

Nest of Stones

by Wanjohi wa Makokha

Kenyan Narratives in Verse Wanjohi wa Makokha’s Nest of Stones is the second book of poems, since the publication of Sitawa Namwalie’s Cut off…

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