Carey Baraka (born 1996) is a Kenyan writer of fiction and nonfiction. He was born in Kisumu, Kenya. [1] He studied philosophy at the University of Nairobi. In 2024, he was announced as one of the winners of the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship. [2]
Baraka is known for his writing about African literary culture. In 2023, he wrote about Ngugi wa Thiong'o for The Guardian, [3] and he has also written about Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor [4] , Kwani? [5] , Isak Dinesen [6] and the history of Kampala as a literary capital in Africa. [7] In 2024, he wrote about the cult killings in Shakahola for The Economist's 1843 Magazine, [8] and was shortlisted for the Fetisov Award [9] and the True Story Award [10] for his work. He has also covered East Africa for Foreign Policy, [11] The New York Review of Books, [12] Financial Times, [13] and The New York Times. [14]
He has been shortlisted for the True Story Award, [10] and the Festisov Award, [9] and he has won the Miles Morland Scholarship, [2] a Macdowell Fellowship, [1] a fellowship from the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, [15] and received grants from the Pulitzer Center [16] and the Silvers Foundation. [17]
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