Mukoma Wa Ngugi 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. His essays have appeared in World Literature Today, Radical History Review, and in the anthology, GETTING HEARD: (Re)claiming Performance Space in Kenya. In addition to scholarly work, Mukoma is the author of the novel NAIROBI HEAT (Melville, 2011), FINDING SAHARA (Melville, 2013) and a collection of poems, HURLING WORDS AT CONSCIOUSNESS (AWP, 2006). His short stories have been published in Wasafiri, African Writing, Kenyon Review and St. Petersburg Review and his poems in New York Quarterly, Mythium, Brick Magazine, Kwani, and Tin House Magazine. For his fiction, he has been shortlisted for both the Caine Prize for African Writing and the Penguin Prize for African Writing. He is a columnist for the BBC Focus On Africa Magazine and his commentary has appeared in The Guardian, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Sunday Nation.

Books by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ

Nairobi Heat

by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ - Fiction, Mystery, Thriller