Poet
Ngwatilo Mawiyoo
Ngwatilo Mawiyoo
(Kenya, 1983)
Biography
Drawing from her musical background and her work as an actress, Ngwatilo Mawiyoo is acclaimed as ‘a priest of the art of performed poetry’. She has performed in venues in East Africa, Europe and North America, such as the 2009 Stockholm Poetry Festival.
Her poems may also be found in literary journals around the world, including Kwani? published by The Kwani Trust and The Literary Review published by Farleigh & Dickinson University.
© Badilisha Poetry X-change
BibliographyPoetry
Blue Mothertongue. Chapbook. Kwani, Nairobi, 2010
Music
Introducing Ngwatilo. 2011
Links
Ngwatilo Mawiyoo's page on Badilisha Poetry X-change
Video of the poem ‘Two clocks’, directed by Tom Vandas
TedxNairobi talk, ‘Framing the future’
Profile and 8 poems, with German translations, on Lyrikline
Poem ‘The end of the love affair’ set to music on World Literature Today
Poems
Poems of Ngwatilo Mawiyoo
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