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African writers are trying to tell a good story that Americans are appreciating more and more, and appreciating its diversity and cross genre aesthetics – and that is a good thing

— Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ

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African writers should not have to win a European or American literary prize before we recognize them as writers.

This place, it reminds me how lucky I am — just to be alive, to be walking out of here.

Black Star Nairobi (2013)

To me ‘home’ are the places I feel a need to fight in order to make them better.

In the United States, there’s the Nevada desert — and football stadiums, if you count Jimmy Hoffa.

Black Star Nairobi (2013)

We should not always need the medium of English and French to talk to each other

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