Jared Angira

Jared Angira (born 21 November 1947) is a Kenyan poet. He has been called "the country's first truly significant poet".^[1]

Life

Angira was born in 1947 in Siaya, Kenya.^[2] He studied commerce at the University of Nairobi^[3] from 1968 until 1971. He contributed to the first (1968) issue of the literary journal Busara, and was appointed its editor-in-chief in 1969. He also founded the Kenya Writers' Association.^[4]

Works

• Juices, London (1970)^[2]
• Silent Voices, London (1972)^[2]
• Soft Corals, London (1973)^[2]
• "Experimental Writing", in Gurr and Calder, Writers in East Africa, 1974.