Kimani reimagines the rise and fall of colonialism in Africa by telling the story of the birth of Kenya's railroad.
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Höhe: 208 mm
Breite: 133 mm
Dicke: 25 mm
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978-1-61775-496-8 (9781617754968)
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Peter Kimani is a leading African writer of his generation. Born in 1971 in Kenya, he started his career as a journalist and has published several works of fiction and poetry. He was one of only three international poets commissioned by National Public Radio to compose and present a poem to mark Barack Obama's inauguration in January 2009. Kimani earned his doctorate in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program in 2014, and is a faculty member at Aga Khan University's Graduate School of Media and Communications in Nairobi. Dance of the Jakaranda is his third novel.
