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
Angira studied commerce at the University of Nairobi[2] from 1968 until 1971. He contributed to the first (1968) issue of the journal Busara, and was appointed its editor-in-chief in 1969. He also founded the Kenya Writers' Association.
Works
- Juices, 1970
- Silent Voices, 1972
- Soft Corals, 1973
- "Experimental Writing", in Gurr and Calder, Writers in East Africa, 1974.
References
- ^ Albert S. Gérard (1986). European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 913. ISBN 978-963-05-3834-3. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
- ^ Profile at African Poetry Review.