Jonathan Kariara

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. Over the same period he ran regular workshops for writers in order to encourage and stimulate local literary creativity. In the late-1970s, his preferred stamping ground was Sadler House (now Consolidated Bank House), Makerere University, where he encountered artistic and literary figures including Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Okot P'Bitek and Elimo Njau.[1] He later had a close literary kinship with poet-compatriot Marjorie Macgoye.[2]

Notes
  1. Koigi 2006.
  2. Ilieva and Odiemo-Munara 2005.
gollark: It seems to just randomly change its mind every decade or so on stuff beyond "you lose weight if you burn more energy than you take in".
gollark: I'm not convinced that nutrition science... knows much.
gollark: Anyone who gets close enough to assassinate him is affected by the reality distortion field.
gollark: I mean, on the one hand, they apparently look cool, but on the other hand they destroy houses and stuff.
gollark: I kind of like *not* worrying about tornadoes here.

References
  • Ilieva, Emilia, and Lennox Odiemo-Munara. "Macgoye's Gift to Writing And National Awareness." Daily Nation, 21 August 2005.
  • Koigi, John. "Njau Finally Signs His Paintings." Daily Nation, 2 December 2006.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.