Jared Angira

Jared Angira
Born	(1947-11-21) November 21, 1947 (age 78) Siaya, Kenya
Citizenship	Kenyan
Education	University of Nairobi
Occupation	Poet
Organisation	Kenya Writers' Association
Known for	Early Kenyan post-independence poetry
Notable work	(1970)

Jared Angira (born 21 November 1947) is a Kenyan poet. He has been called "the country's first truly significant poet". ^[1]

Life

Angira was born in 1947 in Siaya, Kenya. ^[2] He studied commerce at the University of Nairobi ^[3] 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. ^[4]

Works

• Juices, London (1970) ^[2]
• Silent Voices, London (1972) ^[2]
• Soft Corals, London (1973) ^[2]
• "Experimental Writing", in Gurr and Calder, Writers in East Africa, 1974.

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. "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.