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Keguro Macharia

is a lover of language. He suffers recursive writing tics that leave him tarrying in footnotes, asides, the overheard, snippets, fragments, & the slide around particularities delivered as sound, not narrative.

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African Poetry: Kayombo Chingonyi

By Keguro MachariaJuly 1, 2016
"Since I’m remembering this, or making it up"--Kayombo Chingonyi
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African Poetry: Nyachiro Lydia Kasese

By Keguro MachariaJune 25, 2016
Nyachiro Lydia Kasese’s chapbook, Paper Dolls, is filled with scenes of smoking.
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African Poetry: D.M. Aderibigbe

By Keguro MachariaJune 18, 2016
D.M. Aderibigbe’s poetry is scandalous.
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African Poetry: Chielezona Eze

By Keguro MachariaJune 11, 2016
I linger at the quotidian to insist that the African imagination considers livability and shareability.
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African Poetry: Hope Wabuke

By Keguro MachariaJune 4, 2016
Black poetries seek and create forms to imagine and render dispossession.
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African Poetry: Gbenga Adesina

By Keguro MachariaMay 28, 2016
"This is how you love in war"--Gbenga Adesina
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African Poetry: Ngwatilo Mawiyoo

By Keguro MachariaMay 21, 2016
Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Dagoretti Corner begins as “the dust that has no place” and ends with “a glimmer train / of bioluminescence.” The…
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African Poetry: Introduction

By Keguro MachariaMay 13, 2016
Everything queer about me is troubled by this frame of generations.
Essays & Reviews

Political Vernaculars: Freedom and Love

By Keguro MachariaMarch 14, 2016
New languages untethered to the state can help us imagine how we want to live with each other
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Toward Freedom

By Keguro MachariaMarch 6, 2016
What kind of knowledge is freedom-building, freedom-creating, freedom-pursuing, freedom-sustaining?
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Staff at Wits University Threatened

By Keguro MachariaJanuary 17, 2016
We now work in a condition of occupation.--Wits University Staff
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Stories of Our Lives: Suicide

By Keguro MachariaOctober 22, 2015
I do not know if any Kenyan families save suicide notes from their queer children.
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Liberation:Transmission

By Keguro MachariaOctober 22, 2015
South African students: We see you. We hear you. We stand with you.
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Stories of Our Lives: Memories

By Keguro MachariaOctober 2, 2015
Repeatedly, these narratives try to navigate between what a queer life might be and what a Kenyan life is.
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Stories of Our Lives: Introduction

By Keguro MachariaOctober 1, 2015
How might a cum stain on a bathroom wall theorize?
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Mara

By Keguro MachariaJune 10, 2015
You will learn that chickens have their pride.

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