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The list Kenyan poets includes Shailja Patel, Micere Githae Mugo, Ajaib Kamal, Bantu Mwaura and Proud Refuge. The list consists of 23 members and 1 sublist.
  • 1.

    Shailja Patel
    Kenyan writer
    Shailja Patel
    Overview: Shailja Patel is a Kenyan poet, playwright, theatre artist, and political activist. She is most known for her book Migritude, based on her one-woman show of the same name, which was funded by the Ford ...
    Nationality: Kenyan
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Kenyan women poets 6T
    21st-century American women writers 4,233T
    Writers from Nairobi 13T
  • 2.

    Micere Githae Mugo
    Kenyan writer, activist and professor (1942–2023)
    Micere Githae Mugo
    Overview: Micere Githae Mugo (born Madeleine Micere Githae in 1942)was a playwright, author, activist, instructor and poet from Kenya. She is a literary critic and professor of literature in the Department of African ...
    Date of birth: 1942
    Date of death: 30 June 2023
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: Kenyan
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Kenyan women dramatists and playwrights 1T
    2023 deaths 4,394T
    Kenyan women novelists 13T
  • 3.
    Proud Refuge
    Overview: Zachary Mwai Mwangi (born December 22, 1995), known as Proud Refuge, is a Kenyan-American Christian hip hop artist, songwriter, record producer and actor. He is the president ...
    Date of birth: 22 December 1995
    Age: 29
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    21st-century African people by nationality 1T
    African hip hop 6T
    Rappers from Sacramento, California 13T
  • 4.

    Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye
    Kenyan writer (1928–2015)
    Overview: Marjorie Phyllis Oludhe Macgoye (21 October 1928 – 1 December 2015), also known as the mother of ‘Kenyan literature’ was born in Southampton, England, but immigrated to Kenya soon after Kenya became i ...
    Date of birth: 1928
    Date of death: 1 December 2015
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Nationality: Kenyan
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Kenyan women novelists 7T
    Kenyan women poets 6T
    Protestant missionaries in Kenya 6T
  • 5.

    Ajaib Kamal
    Indian writer
    Overview: Ajaib Kamal (1933-2011) was a writer of the Punjabi language. Born in the Hoshiarpur District of the Punjab, he later moved to Kenya. As a poet and playwright, his work is considered part of the modernist ...
    Date of birth: 1932
    Date of death: 2011
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    Poets from Punjab, India 52T
    Indian male poets 973T
    Kenyan people of Punjabi descent 11T
  • 6.

    Bantu Mwaura
    Kenyan writer and activist
    Overview: Bantu Mwaura was a Kenyan performing artist, director, playwright, storyteller, poet and university lecturer. He was also a political and human rights activist and a cultural theorist who has worked mostly ...
    Date of death: 2009
    Nationality: Kenyan
    Occupation: Writer
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    Year of birth missing 11,452T
    Kenyan human rights activists 10T
    2009 deaths 8,693T
  • 7.

    Khadambi Asalache
    Kenyan writer
    Overview: Khadambi Asalache (28 February 1935 - 26 May 2006) was a Kenyan poet and author who settled in London. He was later a civil servant at HM Treasury. He left his lavishly decorated South London terraced ...
    Date of birth: 28 February 1935
    Date of death: 26 May 2006
    Age: 71 (age at death)
    Nationality: Kenyan
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century male writers 5,043T
    People from Western Province (Kenya) 11T
    Kenyan emigrants to the United Kingdom 50T
  • 8.

    Al Kags
    Kenyan, Business
    Overview: Al Kags (born on August, 13 1980), is a prominent writer and poet in Kenya. He is the author of Living Memories, a collection of personal stories by ordinary Kenyans over 65 years about their experiences ...
    Date of birth: 1980
    Age: 44
    Nationality: Kenyan
    Occupation: Business
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  • 9.

    J. C. Niala
    Writer, poet, and storyteller
    Overview: JC Niala is a writer, poet and storyteller. Works include the play The Strong Room shortlisted by Wole Soyinka in BBC Africa Performance 2010, the film Wazi?FM Winner Best Feature Film Zanzibar Intern ...
    Nationality: Kenyan
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Female
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  • 10.

    Clifton Gachagua
    Kenyan poet and writer
    Overview: Clifton Gachagua (born 1987) is a Kenyan poet and novelist.
    Date of birth: 1987
    Age: 37
    Nationality: Kenyan
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Male
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  • 11.

    Poet Tear Drops
    Musical artist
    Poet Tear Drops
    Overview: Mark Joshua Ouma, better known as Teardrops, is a Kenyan spoken word artist based in Nairobi.
    Date of birth: 2 October 1990
    Age: 34
    Nationality: Kenyan
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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  • 12.

    Rebeka Njau
    Kenyan educator, writer and textile artist (born 1932)
    Overview: Rebeka Njau (born 15 December 1932) is a Kenyan educator, writer and textile artist. She also writes under the name Marina Gashe. Alex Wanjala has said: "Like Grace Ogot, Rebeka Njau is a very important ...
    Date of birth: 15 December 1932
    Age: 92
    Nationality: Kenyan
    Occupation: Playwright
    Gender: Female
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    Kenyan women novelists 7T
    Kenyan women poets 6T
    20th-century Kenyan women writers 8T
  • 13.

    Warsan Shire
    Somali poet
    Warsan Shire
    Overview: Warsan Shire FRSL (born 1 August 1988) is a British writer, poet, editor and teacher, who was born to Somali parents in Kenya. In 2013 she was awarded the inaugural Brunel University African Poetry Prize ...
    Date of birth: 1 August 1988
    Age: 36
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Female
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    Somalian women poets 6T
    Kenyan women poets 6T
    Black British women 70T
  • 14.

    Jonathan Kariara
    Kenyan poet
    Overview: Jonathan Kariara (1935–1993) was a Kenyan poet who wrote works including "A Leopard Lives in a Muu Tree". He was also for several years the manager of Oxford University Press's branch office in Nairobi ...
    Date of birth: 1935
    Date of death: 1993
    Age: 57 (age at death)
    Nationality: Kenyan
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Kenyan male writers 24T
    International Writing Program alumni 442T
    20th-century poets 4,046T
  • 15.

    Eastlandah David (Wesonga)
    reclusive kenyan poet and painter
    Eastlandah David (Wesonga)
    Overview: Wesonga Eastlandah David is a Kenyan artist, journalist, poet, painter, youth ambassador, and the 2008 Adeste Gold medal recipient.
    Date of birth: 1985
    Age: 39
    Nationality: Kenyan
    Occupation: Writer
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    Kenyan journalists 46T
    Kenyan people 114T
    Kenyan writers 56T
  • 16.

    Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ
    Kenyan writer
    Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ
    Overview: Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ (born 1971) is a Kenyan poet and author. His father is the author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
    Date of birth: 1971
    Age: 53
    Nationality: Kenyan
    Occupation: Writer
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    Boston University College of Arts and Sciences alumni 158T
    Kenyan novelists 20T
    Kenyan essayists 8T
  • 17.

    Mukoma Wa Ngugi
    Kenyan, Writer
    Overview: Mukoma wa Ngugi (born, 1971) is a Kenyan poet and author. His father is the author Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
    Date of birth: 1971
    Age: 53
    Nationality: Kenyan
    Occupation: Writer
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    1971 births 16,082T
    Boston University alumni 1,429T
  • 18.

    Mark Ford (poet)
    British poet
    Overview: Mark Ford (born 1962 Nairobi, Kenya) is a British poet. He currently serves as the Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at University College London.
    Date of birth: 1962
    Age: 62
    Nationality: Kenyan
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    Kenyan male writers 24T
    21st-century British male writers 720T
    20th-century British male writers 1,407T
  • 19.
    Mumbi Macharia
    Overview: Lisa Mumbi Macharia is a Kenyan performing spoken-word poet and writer.Mumbi began Spoken Word poetry in 2014.
    Date of birth: 20 August 1997
    Age: 27
    Nationality: Kenyan
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Female
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  • 20.
    Tony Mochama
    Overview: Tony Adam Mochama (born 9 May 1975) is a Kenyan poet, writer, author and a senior journalist at the Standard Media Group Kenya. Mochama is a three-time winner of the Burt Awards for African Young Adult ...
    Date of birth: 9 May 1975
    Age: 50
    Nationality: Kenyan
    Occupation: Columnist
    Gender: Male
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