Jared Angira

Jared Angira
Born (1947-11-21) November 21, 1947 (age 78)
Siaya, Kenya
CitizenshipKenyan
EducationUniversity of Nairobi
OccupationPoet
OrganisationKenya Writers' Association
Known forEarly Kenyan post-independence poetry
Notable workJuices (1970)

Jared Angira (born 21 November 1947) is a Kenyan poet. He has been called "the country's first truly significant poet".

Life

Angira was born in 1947 in Siaya, Kenya. He studied commerce at the University of Nairobi from 1968 until 1971. He contributed to the first (1968) issue of the literary journal Busara, and was appointed its editor-in-chief in 1969. He also founded the Kenya Writers' Association.

Works

References

  1. ↑ Knight, Elisabeth (1986). "Kenya". In Gérard, Albert S. (ed.). European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa. John Benjamins. pp. 887–921. ISBN 978-963-05-3834-3.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Biografski dodaci" [Biographic appendices]. Republika: Časopis za kulturu i društvena pitanja (Izbor iz novije afričke književnosti) (in Serbo-Croatian). XXXIV (12). Zagreb, SR Croatia: 1424–1427. December 1978. Archived from the original on 2020-10-15. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  3. ↑ Profile at African Poetry Review.
  4. ↑ Gikandi, Simon (2003). Encyclopedia of African Literature. London: Taylor & Francis. pp. 32–33. ISBN 978-1-134-58223-5. OCLC 1062304793. Retrieved 2018-12-04.