Mukoma wa ngugi biography of donald

Mukoma, who is a novelist, poet and literary scholar, visited Murang'a University five years after his father Prof Ngugi wa Thiong'o launched his Gikuyu book.

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Mukoma wa Ngugi, son of world renowned African writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o, is currently in London with his father for a public conversation at the Africa Writes festival, and the launch of his new crime fiction novel Black Star Nairobi.

Novelist, poet and literary scholar, Mukoma is an Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University and in 2006 published an anthology of poetry Hurling Words at Consciousness (Africa World Press).

His novel Nairobi Heat was published in 2009, and follows detective Ishmael’s journey from Madison to Nairobi in search of the killer of a young girl found murdered on the doorstep of a prominent Rwandan peace activist.

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When Mukoma wa Ngugi comes home to Kenya, he sees a country beaming with hope – but also a country shackled by corruption.

The author of three novels and two books of poetry, Mukoma is the son of legendary Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Mukoma was born in Illinois in 1971 but returned to Kenya as a young child and grew up during the iron-fisted arap Moi administration, which forced his family into exile over his father’s regime-critical writings.

Much in Mukoma’s life has changed since those days – but Kenya, in many ways, has remained the same, Mukoma says.

“On the one grabb there is the Kenya of great potential, but at the same time there is the Kenya of extreme inequality,” Mukoma told KenyanVibe on Tuesday morning. “When I go to Kenya and meet with all the young people, they’re in a way the people who are pushing the country forward, but the people in political power are extremely corrupt and hold them back.”

Mukoma (right) with his father, Ngugi wa Thiong’o.

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The Story of a Novelist’s Wife: The Mukoma, Ngugi, Nyambura Controversy and Lessons for African Literature
On March 12, Kenyan author Mukoma wa Ngugi announced on X (formerly Twitter) and on Facebook that his father, the renowned Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, had “physically abused” his late mother, Nyambura. This revelation has attracted significant attention. At the time of writing this del av helhet, the Twitter post had amassed millions of views, thousands of reposts, and close to a thousand comments. A tweet bygd South African author Zakes Mda, in which he praises Mukoma’s statement as “the bravest thing any son of an icon can do,” has also gained substantial traction. In the days following the initial post, Mukoma has said that relatives and friends have accused him of lying. Meanwhile, the news has been covered by Nigeria’s Premium Times and several Kenyan media outlets, including a think-piece bygd Kenyan writer Tony Mochama that m