Publications

2021 Decolonizing and Delinking African Literary Criticism: A Response to The Rise of the African Novel. Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Black Scholar Magazine — 2019 Kidane-Diva “Come See the Other Me,” adapted from Unbury Our Dead with Song Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Absinthe · needs review — 2019 Ten Poems for Michael Armitage Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Museum of Contemporary Art – Australia Exhibition Catalogue — 2019 The Politics of Writing ‘Popular’ Fiction: Challenging the African Literary Tradition. Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Brave New Words: The Power of Writing Now — 2018 Building the African Literary Tradition on Quick Sand Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History — 2018 The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership Mukoma Wa Ngugi · University of Michigan Press 15 2017 African Literary Hustle Mukoma Wa Ngugi · New Orleans Review — 2017 Decolonising the Mind and the English Metaphysical Empire Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Decolonising the Mind by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o — 2017 Illuminations on Chinua Achebe edited by Professor Micere Mugo Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Africa World Press — 2017 The African Literary Tradition and the English Metaphysical Empire: Interview with Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Global Africa · needs review — 2016 How Fast Can You Run by Harriet Levin Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Harvard Square Editions — 2016 Logotherapy (poems) Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Africa Poetry Book Series/University of Nebraska Press — 2016 No Ordinary Thing Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Brittle Paper — 2016 Portraits of my Grandfather Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Poems for John Berger — 2016 Safe House Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Poetry Daily Feature · needs review — 2016 The Geography of Madness by Frank Bures Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Melville Publishing House — 2015 Mrs. Shaw Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Ohio University/Swallow Press — 2015 On Reading the Poem I Should Have Written Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Jam Tarts — 2015 Walking the Wok Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Cooked Up (edited by Elaine Chiew) — 2013 Black Star Nairobi (Novel) Mukoma Wa Ngugi · New York: Melville Publishing House and Kwela Books — 2013 Breaking Out of the Prison House of Hierarchy. Mukoma Wa Ngugi · World Literature Today 1 2013 Don't tell African authors what they can and can't write about. Mukoma Wa Ngugi · The World Today — 2013 Edited a Special section for the Global South Project on Globalectics Mukoma Wa Ngugi · World Literature Today — 2013 Global South Project: Globalectics and World Literature Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Journal of Contemporary Thought — 2013 The Black Man's Nod. Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Callaloo 6 2012 Global South Cultural Dialogue Project: Indian Literature to World Literature Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Journal of Contemporary Thought — 2012 Rethinking the Global South. Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Journal of Contemporary Thought — 2012 Wounded Men of Limuru Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Kwani? — 2011 Apprentice: Hunting Words with my Father Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Mythium Journal — 2009 Africa is not a Proverb. Mukoma Wa Ngugi · World Literature Today 0 2009 How Kamau wa Mwangi Escaped into Exile Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Wasafiri 2 2009 I swear I see skulls coming Mukoma Wa Ngugi · New York Quarterly — 2009 Mrs. Shaw Mukoma Wa Ngugi · St. Petersburg Review — 2009 Nairobi Heat (Novel) Mukoma Wa Ngugi · South Africa: Penguin Books — 2009 Return from Exile Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Kenyon Review — 2008 Bird in Flight Mukoma Wa Ngugi · New York Quarterly — 2008 How to Become an Immigrant and an Exile Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House — 2008 The Task of the African Translator. Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Getting Heard: (Re)claiming Performance Space in Kenya — 2007 A Word, the Reader and Writer in Literary African Imagination: Whose Tongue? Mukoma Wa Ngugi · The Quilt: Cultural Voices — 2007 Reflections on the Meaning of Peace. Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Wajibu Journal — 2006 Hurling Words at Consciousness (Poems) Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Africa World Press — 2006 Letter to my Nephew Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa — 2005 History Is Not Done with Us: Dreaming through the Past Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Radical History Review · needs review 1 2005 Home is Home. Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Kwani Journal — 2005 Once they Lived Together Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Réflexions sur le GénocideRwandais./ Ten years later: Reflections on the Rwandan Genocide — 2003 African Revolutions Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Chimurenga — 2003 A Poem for Arthur Nortje Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Kwani Journal — 2003 On Imagination and Politics of Change. Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Chimurenga — 2002 A Poem for Narcissus Mukoma Wa Ngugi · Wisconsin Academy Review — 2001 Law of Averages Mukoma Wa Ngugi · One Hundred Days —