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Kenya

Wangui Wa Goro (born 1961) is a Kenyan academic, social critic, researcher, translator and writer. She has translated the works of award-winning authors including Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Matigari, from Gikuyu to English, and Véronique Tadjo's A vol d'oiseau (As the Crow Flies) from French. Wa Goro's own writing encompasses poetry, essays, short stories, fiction and non-fiction. She has also been an active campaigner for human rights in Africa and Europe, and co-edited with Kelly Coate and Suki Ali the book Global Feminist Politics: Identities in a Changing World (Routledge, 2001).

She is a regular participant at the Royal African Society's annual literature and book festival Africa Writes, among other events curating the symposium "Africa in Tra
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Matigari

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As the Crow Flies

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