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Any Matatu driver will drop you at Tassia road if you say you want to stop at Tassia. From the beginning, the...
Source Dorm 10 is no more. It has been razed to the ground. To be honest, I feel no emotion. Life has...
I recently did an interview with Akwaeke Emezi, who is an Igbo/Tamil writer and filmmaker based in liminal spaces. These interview was...
Image Source Of all the flowers my mother planted, I loved the pink cosmos the best. They would fully bloom in April,...
The constellation Aquilae was very important to my great-great-great grandfather Rumbas, an astrologer and a diviner. There are four major stars in...
My great-grandmother, Kabon, who passed on in 1953, once walked up the Kerio valley all the way to Kakamega with the women...
A long while back, 1919 to be specific, Scots and Boers had settled in Uasin Gishu and cleared the last lion pride...
If I should tell you this story, then I should begin with hands, rough hands on my shoulders, and the smell of...
I cannot remember her name. Her face is but a shadow by now. She was the tallest in class though, taller than...
One remarkable difference between Nairobi and Iten is the absence of ghosts. There were ghosts everywhere in Iten, though most of them...
Kabon had four children. The eldest was Kimoi my grand-mother who got married in Sergoit. In 1926, she gave birth to her...
In the 19th century, the Keiyo and Marakwet lived in the cliffs of the second Rift Valley escarpment, tending over irrigation furrows...
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About me
Hello, my name is Kiprop Kimutai. I am a Kenyan writer whose fiction has appeared in The Evergreen Review, The Johannesburg Review of Books, Kwani? Trust, Jalada Africa, Painted Bride Quarterly and No Tokens.
I was a 2023 Miles Morland Scholar, a 2019 Maison Baldwin fellow and has been a finalist for the Gerald Kraak award. Currently am working on my début novel, THE FREEDOM OF BIRDS, which won the 2023 Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize, and a collection of stories themed around desire and alienation.
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