Moraa Gitaa

Moraa Gitaa bụ onye odeakụkọ Kenya, amụrụ na Mombasa. Ọ bụkwa onye nyocha Udo na Mkpebi Ọgbaghara, onye na-akwado omenala na onye na-ahụ maka nka. Ọ bụ onye dere akwụkwọ akụkọ YA ka anyị kwuo banyere nke a, The Kigango Oracle, Hila na The Shark Attack.

## Ọrụ
Akwụkwọ akụkọ ifo nke okenye zuru oke nke Gitaa, Crucible for Silver and Furnace for Gold, gbadoro ụkwụ na agwa abụọ: Lavina, nwanyị Africa Kenya nke bu nje HIV, na Giorgio, nwoke Italy nke Lavina zutere na ezumike na Malindi nke dị n'ụsọ osimiri Kenya.[1] Akwụkwọ akụkọ Gitaa sophomore bụ Shifting Sands. 

Ndị ọkà mmụta akatọwo Crucible for Silver na Furnace for Gold dị ka ịgụgharị na idegharị okike n'Nje HIV. Ọrụ ya na Shifting Sands nwetara nyocha dị mma na *Nairobi Star* site n'aka Khainga O' Okwemba, onye kwuru, sị: "Nke a bụ onye edemede nwere ndidi, nnọgidesi ike na ịdọ aka ná ntị dị mkpa iji mepụta ihe odide doro anya. Nke a bụ onye Kenya nke oge a nwere ike iji akụkọ edere nke ọma ma na-egbuke egbuke mee ka onye na-agụ ya.... Shifting sands bụ ihe a ga-agụ maka ụmụ akwụkwọ edemede.  Akụkọ Gitaa na-elekwasị anya na ndị na-adịghị ike, ndị a na-ejighị n'aka, ndị a, ndị a zụrụ anya na-ejere ezere ezere ezo na ndị a na ndị a chụpụrụ iche n'oge a.

Akụkọ Gitaa na-abụghị akụkọ ifo na akụkọ mkpirikpi gosipụtara na Harvard University's Transition Magazine,  PEN International's PEN OutWrite,  IFLAC's Peace & Anti-Terror Anthology, Spotlight Publisher's Waiting and Other Stories, Creatives Garage Anthology, ọtụtụ Author Me Anthologies, ọtụtụ G21 The World's Magazine Anthologies gụnyere Africa Fresh! &nbsp;*Africa dị ọhụrụ! *New Voices from the First Continent, The African Magazine, na Hekaya Initiative 

N'afọ 2014, James Murua gụnyere Gitaa na ndepụta nke ndị edemede Africa 39 kachasị elu n'okpuru afọ 40 na-ede na Bekee.

## Ọrụ

* *Ka anyị kwuo maka nke a*. Ndị na-ebipụta akwụkwọ a na-amaghị ama, Kenya, 2020
* Kigango Oracle. Ndị na-ebipụta ụwa a na-amaghị ama, Kenya, 2020 
* *Hila* Storymoja Publishers, Kenya, 2015
* *Mwakpo Shark*. Moran Publishers, Kenya, 2014  
* *Onye Na-ese Ihe*. Ụlọ Ọrụ Na-ahụ Maka Akwụkwọ nke Kenya, Kenya, 2014
* *Ájá Na-agbanwe agbanwe*. Nsemia Publishers, Kenya, 2012
* *Crucible maka ọlaọcha na ọkụ maka ọlaedo*. Nsemia Publishers, Kenya, 2008

## Anthologies ndị e gosipụtara

* African Land Policy Center (ALPC) Anthology Finding Ground na Akụkọ ndị ọzọ gbasara ọchịchị ala n'Africa, 2022.
* Hekaya Arts Initiative Mbipụta 01 / Libros Agency: Anthology - Jihadi Bride and Other Stories, Kenya, 2018
* Transition Magazine Mbipụta 121: Isiokwu - Nwatakịrị - Hutchins Center for African and African American Research na Mahadum Harvard, 2016
* Ndị na-emepụta ihe Garage: Femmolution Mpịakọta 01, Kenya, 2016
* *Ichere na Akụkọ Ndị Ọzọ*: Spotlight Publishers, Kenya, 2016
* PEN OutWrite - Obscure Oddities: LGBTQI Issue bipụtara site na PEN International, 2015
* G2's Anthology - Africa Fresh! *Africa dị ọhụrụ! Olu Ọhụrụ sitere na Kọntinent Mbụ*, 2010

## Onyinye

* 2024 Ndị edemede 25 a ma ama na akwụkwọ 25 nke Kenya Publishers Association site na afọ 25 gara aga na The Shark Attack 
* 2024 Nuria Bookstore's Top 100 Authors and Books with Shifting Sands 
* 2022-2023 IAS-CEU Onye edemede na-ebi / Fellow: Institute for Advanced Study - Central European University 
* 2022 Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature (JKPL) - Ndepụta dị mkpirikpi na "Let's Talk About This" 
* 2021 James Currey Prize for African Literature (Longlist) 
* 2021 NOMMO Awards (Nominated/Longlist) 
* 2017 apexart Fellow 
* 2014 Burt Award 
* 2010 Penguin Prize for African Writing (Shortlist) 
* 2008 National Book Development Council of Kenya - Book Week Literary Awards (Onye mmeri nke mbụ Adult Fiction Category) 

## Edemsibia

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