Meet and Ask Your Question

Interaction with African Writers and Cartoonists/Comic Artists

This is the first and hopefully the beginning of what will be an exciting journey. In this undertaking, we want YOU, a member of the African Literature & Comics (ALC)community, to MEET AND ASK YOUR QUESTIONS to the African Writers and Cartoonists/Comic Artists that will over time, grace this page and space.

To set the ball rolling, Novelist, Poet and Literary Scholar Dr. Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ, has graciously agreed to chat with the members of the African Literature and Comics community here.

Dr. Mũkoma 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. Unbury Our Dead With Song (a novel about competing Tizita musicians) is forthcoming from Cassava Republic Press (Fall of 2020).

Some of his works have been translated into German, Turkish and French. A member of the African Literature Association’s Executive Council, he is the co-founder of the Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature. In 2013, New African magazine named him one of the 100 most Influential Africans. In 2015 he was a juror for the Writivism Short Story Prize and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He co-edited with Prof. Laura Murphy, a Special Issue of New Orleans Review titled The African Literary Hustle. In 2016, he wrote an eight part play radio play, Drugs to Kill, Drug to Cure for Deutsche Welle that was translated into Portuguese, Lingala, Kiswahili, Hausa and French.

Dr. Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ is the son of Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o and as it is said, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

What question would you like to ask him? Register your questions here.