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Jared Angira (born 21 November 1947) is a Kenyan poet. He has been called "the country's first truly significant poet".

Life

Angira was born in 1947 in Siaya, Kenya. He studied commerce at the University of Nairobi from 1968 until 1971. He contributed to the first (1968) issue of the literary journal Busara, and was appointed its editor-in-chief in 1969. He also founded the Kenya Writers' Association.

Works

• Juices, London (1970)
• Silent Voices, London (1972)
• Soft Corals, London (1973)
• "Experimental Writing", in Gurr and Calder, Writers in East Africa, 1974.

References

1. Knight, Elisabeth (1986). "Kenya". In Gérard, Albert S. (ed.). European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa. John Benjamins. pp. 887–921. ISBN 978-963-05-3834-3.
2. ^ "Biografski dodaci" [Biographic appendices]. Republika: Časopis za kulturu i društvena pitanja (Izbor iz novije afričke književnosti) (in Serbo-Croatian). XXXIV (12). Zagreb, SR Croatia: 1424–1427. December 1978.
3. Profile at African Poetry Review.
4. Gikandi, Simon (2003). Encyclopedia of African Literature. London: Taylor & Francis. pp. 32–33. ISBN 978-1-134-58223-5. OCLC 1062304793. Retrieved 2018-12-04.

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