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Shailja Patel
Shailja Patel is an internationally acclaimed Kenyan poet, playwright, theatre artist, and political activist. She is most known for her spoken-word theatre show ''Migritude''.〔 CNN characterizes Patel as an artist "who exemplifies globalization as a people-centered phenomenon of migration and exchange."〔(UWC Adriatic, November 21, 2009. )〕 She divides her time between Kenya and the USA.〔()〕 In Kenya, she is very active in terms of equality and peace. She is a founding member of Kenyans For Peace, Truth and Justice, a civil society coalition that works for an equitable democracy in Kenya. Her book, ''Migritude'', was published by Kaya Press in 2010.〔(Kaya Press ).〕 She describes herself in a December 2010 interview with San Francisco's Bay Sunday TV show, "As a political thinker, I place myself and my work in the lineage of centuries of progressive struggle that bequeathed us the invaluable awareness of ourselves as firstly human beings, in radical solidarity with all humans on the planet who share a vision of peace, justice, and equality." 〔(Migritude,December 12, 2010. )〕
== Biography ==
Patel was born and raised in Kenya as a third-generation East African of Indian Gujarati heritage. Her grandparents migrated to East Africa from the Indian sub-continent. Her father was raised on Pemba Island and her mother was from Mombasa. She grew up in Nairobi and attended college in England before migrating to the United States. She has lived in London and San Francisco and divides her time now between Nairobi and University of California-Berkeley.
Patel's poetry, performance art, and essays are often centered on the themes of Empire, migration, globalization, colonialism, women, and the African and South Asian diasporas.〔(Interview by David Wesonga and Ogova Ondego, "Reclaiming and Celebrating Migration through Poetry", ArtMatters.Info, July 16, 2007. )〕 Patel is a founding member of Kenyans For Peace, Truth and Justice, a civil society coalition that works for an equitable democracy in Kenya.〔http://creativetimereports.org/author/shailja-patel-1/〕
Patel noted, in an interview with Kenya's ICC Witness Project, "I read as 'Asian' phenotypically, but I am 'African' by birth, geography, and worldview. As an artist I move toward the forms that move me. I’ve been a poet from childhood. When I migrated to the United States and discovered slam, it blew me away, so I immersed myself in it. When I began to write pieces that were too long and complex to slam, theater was the natural space to move into. Now I’ve come full circle to writing again, making work—books, poems, political essays—that migrates freely across continents and languages, independent of my physical body" 〔http://fpif.org/art-activism-global-intersections-dialogue-shailja-patel/〕
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