Moraa Gitaa
Moraa Gitaa is a Kenyan author living in Nairobi with her seventeen-year-old daughter Tracy. Moraa is currently in the process of registering the Moraa Gitaa Foundation (MGF), which ill consist of a Dyslexia (a writing disorder that challenged her daughter in her formative years) awareness unit, incorporate a Social Organization arm which will sensitise the community on HIV and AIDS, while sourcing for support for orphans and destitute young women affected by the endemic resident in informal settlements. The organization will also operate as a vocational training centre for the same group of persons and will have a community resource centre cum library. Moraa is also the Deputy Chair of International PEN Kenya Chapter Women Writers’ Committee and Coordinator of PAN (PEN African Network). The Pan African grouping of African writers consists of members of African regional PEN centres. Moraa is pro-children/youth and pro-women and sets out to reflect this in her various treatises.
Crucible for Silver & Furnace for Gold (Nsemia Inc. Publishers, 2008) [1] was her first full-length novel. She is currently working on other titles including Indecent Proposal (Crime Fiction Novella), Shark Attack! (Teen Novella), and The Deepest Cut (Inspirational).
Other future works include Devil in the Detail (Novel), Katsanga Kenye – An Anthology (Moraa’s collection of short stories).
She has been featured in anthologies including Author-Me Author Africa Anthology (2011), Kwani? Project Soma (2012), Author-Me Author Africa Anthology (2008), and G21 The World’s Magazine – Africa Fresh! New Voices from the First Continent (2007) among others.
She has published a number of short stories that include Searching Me, Katsanga Kenye, The Devil is in the Detail, To Serenity via Perdition, Diplomatic Immunity and From Shifting Sands to Deeper Dimensions. An excerpt chapter from this book won first prize in Adult Fiction from the National Book Development Council of Kenya (NBDCK) in 2008. Moraa was also nominated for the 2010 Penguin Prize for African Writing.
References
- ^ Gitaa, Moraa (2008). Crucible for silver and furnace for gold (1st ed. ed.). [Oakville, Ont.]: Nsemia Publishers. p. 276. ISBN 0981036228.
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