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Shailja Patel

is the author of Migritude, published in Italy, Sweden and the US. Migritude was an Amazon poetry bestseller, a Seattle Times bestseller, won Outstanding Book Design in the US Graphic Design Awards, and was shortlisted for Italy's Camaiore Prize. A weekly contributor to TNI's Sunday Reading.

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Baghdad, Beirut, Paris: Six Women to Think With

By Shailja PatelNovember 17, 2015
You could walk into the water and stay there. What was the problem?
Essays & Reviews

The Road to Garissa

By Shailja PatelApril 3, 2015
But Kenya refused to accept the results
Wiathi

Garissa

By Shailja PatelApril 3, 2015
the morning after a massacre / a country wakes nauseous
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The Funnies

By Shailja PatelJanuary 14, 2015
Rape cartoons are funny if it's inconceivable to you that you could ever be raped.
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Westgate: Blowback

By Shailja PatelSeptember 26, 2013
The innocent were warned.
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Postcards From Si Kenya

By Shailja PatelJune 26, 2013
Tena mwanangu idhili, Mbee za makabaili, Uwaonapo mahali, Angusa kuwenukiya. Further, my child, humble yourself, before people of rank, when you see them anywhere, quickly…
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Politics of Contempt

By Shailja PatelJune 26, 2013
Of all the fine and pretty sights in this fine and pretty world, none is finer or prettier than the sight of the full-bellied urging…
Essays & Reviews

Kenya’s Three Tribes

By Shailja PatelMarch 3, 2013
There are only three tribes in Kenya. The haves. The wanna-haves. The have-them-removed.
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