Jared Angira
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Jared Angira (born 21 November 1947) is a Kenyan poet. He has been called "the country's first truly significant poet".[1]
Life
[edit | edit source]Angira was born in 1947 in Siaya, Kenya.[2] He studied commerce at the University of Nairobi[3] from 1968 until 1971. He contributed to the first (1968) issue of the literary journal Busara, and was appointed its editor-in-chief in 1969. He also founded the Kenya Writers' Association.[4]
Works
[edit | edit source]- Juices, London (1970)[2]
- Silent Voices, London (1972)[2]
- Soft Corals, London (1973)[2]
- "Experimental Writing", in Gurr and Calder, Writers in East Africa, 1974.
References
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