Prof. Mukoma Wa Ngugi has been confirmed as a Keynote Speaker at the 3rd Annual Conference on the Role of Literature in a Global World of the Research Week 2020. The theme of the conference is “Eastern Africa Literature in the 21st Century: Achievements, Challenges, Perspectives”.
Mukoma Wa Ngugi 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 (spring of 2021).
For more information visit the conference page: https://uonresearch.org/current-events/rw-lgw2020/
