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Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ (born 1971) is a Kenyan poet and author. His father is the author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. ==Biography== Mũkoma was born in 1971 in Evanston, Illinois, USA, but raised in Kenya, before returning to the United States for his university education.〔(Mukoma Wa Ngugi website. )〕〔(Open Book, Cape Town, 2013. )〕 He holds a BA in Political Science from Albright College and an MA in Creative Writing from Boston University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he specialized in how questions of authorized and unauthorized English, or standard and non-standard English, influenced literary aesthetics in Romantic Britain and Independence-Era Africa.〔(Mukoma Wa Ngugi biography, Department of English, Cornell University. )〕 He is an Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University.〔 He is the author of ''Conversing with Africa: Politics of Change'' ((reviewed ) by ''New Internationalist'') and ''Hurling Words at Consciousness'' (poetry, Africa World Press, 2006). He is also a columnist for ''BBC Focus on Africa'' magazine and former co-editor of ''Pambazuka News''.〔 He has published poems in ''Tin House Magazine'', ''Chimurenga'', ''Brick'' magazine, ''Smartish Pace'', and ''Teeth in the Wind'', ''One Hundred Days'' (Barque Press); ''New Black Writing'' (John Wiley and Sons); ''Réflexions sur le Génocide rwandais''/''Ten Years Later: Reflections on the Rwandan Genocide'' (L'Harmattan Press). He has published political essays and columns in the ''LA Times'', ''Radical History Review'', ''World Literature Today'', ''Mail and Guardian'', Zimbabwe’s ''Herald'', Kenya’s ''Daily Nation'', the ''EastAfrican'', ''Kwani?'' journal, and zmag.org among other publications. His short story "How Kamau Wa Mwangi Escaped into Exile" was shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2009〔("Previous shortlisted writers", The Caine Prize. )〕〔("How Kamau Wa Mwangi Escaped into Exile". )〕 and is included in the anthology ''Work in Progress - And Other Stories (Caine Prize: Annual Prize for African Writing)'' (New Internationalist, 2009). His work was also shortlisted for the 2010 Penguin Prize for African Writing.〔〔("Penguin Books SA announces shortlist for Penguin Prize for African Writing" ), 1 July 2010.〕 Some of Mũkoma's poems have been archived on Badilisha Poetry X-Change 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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