As you may have heard by now, Bantu Mwaura, the renowned Kenyan performing artist, direct
or, playwright, storyteller, poet and university lecture, wasfound dead outside his gate at the Sunlight estate in Nairobi’s Lang’ata area on April 27th.
Read his orbituary and the circumstances leading to his death fromThe Standard, Global Voices,Pambazuka, Nairobi Chronicle,Blogger KenyaPoet, Wikipedia entry, Onyango Oloo on The EastAfrican,Presbyterian News Service
I remember Bantu as a regular patron to British Council Nairobi cultural events in the mid 1990s.A limited preview his essay "Kenyan Youth and the entropic Destruction of a hopeful social order" and "Orature of Combat: Cultural aesthetic of song as political action in performance of mau mau songs" is availabe from google books.
His publication: Our Strength is our Hope, Nairobi 1997 (poems)
His poem "The Politician" is attached
 Poetry Africa 2008.pdf |
