She spent the majority of her childhood in different parts of East Africa. She earned a BA in Anthropology from the George Washington University in 2012; she now lives in her home country. She’s the winner of the 2014 Brunel University African Poetry Prize. Find more of her work here and on Facebook. Posted in A Grain of WheatTagged A Grain of Wheat, African literature, book reviews, colonialism, freedom, Kenya, Kenyan authors, Kenyan independence, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the african book review, Uhuru, Wa Thiongo