Ominous Clouds - Okemwa, Christopher

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Résumé :
Ominous Clouds is a collection of poems that have specifically been selected from previous works by the author. The collection comprises poems with the theme of Kenyan politics. Issues of governance, negative ethnicity, and political violence are tackled. The poems have been translated into Finnish, Norwegian, and Greek. These multiple translations enable the poetry to travel around the globe and beyond the readership in English, the original language in which they were written. As the translators have noted, the translations offer readership in the said languages to learn about the country Kenya as captured in the poetry....

Biographie:
Christopher Okemwa is a lecturer of Literature at Kisii University, Kenya. His published works include poetry collections, oral literature, a short story collection, children's books, and folktales of the Abagusii. His novella Sabina and the Mystery of the Ogre won the 2015 Burt Award for African Literature (Kenya). His PhD thesis is titled A Study of the Kwani? Open Mic 'Literary-Gangsta' Performance Poetry of Kenya.

Sommaire:
Christopher Okemwa is a lecturer of literature at Kisii University, Kenya. He holds a PhD in performance poetry from Moi University, Kenya. He is the founder and current director of the Kistrech International Poetry Festival in Kenya (www.kistrechpoetry.org). His novella, Sabina and the Mystery of the Ogre, won the Canadian Burt Award for African Literature in 2015. Its sequel, Sabina the Rain Girl, was selected for the UN SDG 2 Zero Hunger reading list....