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Uncategorized I met PJ Mofokeng in Franschhoek, Western Cape. PJ took up space. He was loud, in the sense of a man who knows for...
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In 1919, a man named Arap Moi (nothing associated with the former president) walked from Mutei to Karonai, to visit his son...
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I always thought of angels. I wondered what it felt like to be one, to illuminate from within with divine light as...
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Imagine 1924, in the settler farms of Uasin Gishu. Arap Amdany is 22 years old and has been employed by a Scottish...
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Kabon’s first husband, was a man from Mutei, whom she only referred to as Tililio. She went to his house, carrying a...
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Begin from a place of love A place of deep memory And of brotherhood That place which held you While you waited...
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He told me that Rwanda has the highest concentration of tin in the world, and that this tin is used in almost...
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I have many names. My fondest were my childhood nicknames, Dodo and Mod, used only by my siblings and never uttered outside...
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My mum went to Iten yesterday and met a teacher from Kessup Girls. The teacher told her that he had seen her...
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We had an orchard at our farm in Iten. On a section of land that was sunken and completely surrounded by a...
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Sometimes when dawn spreads, Her rosy fingertips It bleaches upon a skeleton Of a poet who sat too long Through many cold...
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If I lay down and became the earth, and my breasts two Indian temples, carved from red sandstone, more beautiful than the...
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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.