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Ominous Clouds is a collection of poems that have specifically been selected from previous works by the author. The collection comprises poems with the theme of Kenyan politics. Issues of governance, negative ethnicity, and political violence are tackled. The poems have been translated into Finnish, Norwegian, and Greek. These multiple translations enable the poetry to travel around the globe and beyond the readership in English, the original language in which they were written. As the translators have noted, the translations offer readership in the said languages to learn about the country Kenya as captured in the poetry.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Ominous Clouds is a collection of poems that have specifically been selected from previous works by the author. The collection comprises poems with the theme of Kenyan politics. Issues of governance, negative ethnicity, and political violence are tackled. The poems have been translated into Finnish, Norwegian, and Greek. These multiple translations enable the poetry to travel around the globe and beyond the readership in English, the original language in which they were written. As the translators have noted, the translations offer readership in the said languages to learn about the country Kenya as captured in the poetry.
Autorenporträt
Christopher Okemwa is a literature lecturer at Kisii University, Kenya. He has a PhD in performance poetry from Moi University, Kenya. He is the founder and current director of the Kistrech International Poetry Festival in Kenya (www.kistrechpoetry.org). He has written many books of poetry. Some of his poems have been translated into Armenian, Chinese, Greek, Norwegian, Finnish, Hungarian, Arabic, Chinese, Nepalese, Turkish, Spanish, Catalan and Serbian. He has also translated four literary works of international poets from English to Swahili. He is the editor of four international poetry anthologies around the world. He has written two novels, three children's books, four oral literature texts and ten folktales about the Abagusii people of Kenya. His novella, Sabina and the Mystery of the Ogre, (nsemia Inc., 2015) won the Canadian Burt Award for African Literature in 2015. Its sequel, Sabina the Rain Girl, published in 2019, is a popular novella among students in Kenya.