About Author: Mukoma wa Ngugi

Mukoma Wa Ngugi is the author of the novel Nairobi Heat (Penguin, SA 2009), an anthology of poetry titled Hurling Words at Consciousness (AWP, 2006) and is a political columnist for the BBC's Focus on Africa Magazine. He was short listed for the Caine Prize for African writing in 2009 and for the Penguin African Writing Prize in 2010. His fiction has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Wasafiri and African Writing, and his poetry in the New York Quarterly, Tin House Magazine, Brick Magazine and the anthologies, Satellite Convulsions (Tin House, 2008), Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa (Flipped Eye Press,2006), Step into a World: A Global Anthology of New Black Writing (John Wiley & Sons, 2001).

A former co-editor of Pambazuka News, his columns have appeared in the Guardian, International Herald Tribune, Chimurenga, Los Angeles Times, South African Labour Bulletin, and Business Daily Africa, and he has been a guest on Democracy Now, Al Jazeera and the BBC World Service. His essays have appeared in the World Literature Review, the Black Commentator, Progressive Magazine and Radical History Review. He has forthcoming work in Callaloo and the St. Petersburg Review. He is the son of World renowned African writer, Ngugi wa Thiong’o.