Mukoma wa Ngugi
Mukoma Wa Ngugi is the author of Hurling Words at Consciousness (poems, AWP 2006) and Conversing with Africa (KPH, 2003). Nairobi Heat, a detective novel about an African American detective investigating a murder in Kenya is forthcoming from Penguin, South Africa, October 2009. He is a political columnist for the BBC Focus on Africa Magazine.
His essays and columns have been carried by the Guardian, International Herald Tribune, Progressive Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Christian Science Monitor, Radical History Review, South Africa’s Mail and Guardian, Kenya’s Business Daily Africa and Sunday Nation, amongst others. He has been a guest commentator on Democracy Now, Al Jazeera and the BBC World Service
His fiction has appeared in Wasafiri, Kenyon Review and Kwani? and his poems in the New York Quarterly, Tin House Magazine, Brick Magazine, Kwani and Chimurenga and in the anthologies, Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa (Flipped Eye Press, 2006), Satellite Convulsions (Tin House, 2008), and Step into a World: A Global Anthology of New Black Writing (John Wiley & Sons, 2001), etc.
He was shortlisted for the 2009 Caine Prize for African writing and currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio.
Titles
Nairob Heat (Penguin Global, 2009)
Hurling Words at Consciousness (Africa World Press, 2006)
Conversing with Africa: Politics of Change (Kimaathi Publishing House, 2003).
Nairobi Heat (Penguin Books South Africa, 2009)