"As an African and a Black person, I feel that I
have a duty to love all the places I call home. Love need not always be pleasant—it can be demanding, defensive, angry
and wrong. But it always wants to build, not destroy."
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NOVELIST. POET. SCHOLAR.
NOVELIST
Mukoma Wa Ngugi is an Associate Professor of English at Cornell University and the author of The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership, the novels Mrs. Shaw, Black Star Nairobi, Nairobi Heat, and two books of poetry, Logotherapy and Hurling Words at Consciousness. He is the co-founder of the Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature and co-director of the Global South Project - Cornell.
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