JKS Makokha
JKS Makokha is a Kenyan writer living in Berlin, Germany. He is the author of Reading M.G. Vassanji: A Contextual Approach to Asian African Fiction (2009) and co-editor of a new volume on African literary criticism, Negotiating Afropolitanism: Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Folklore (2010) with Jennifer Wawrzinek. Makokha teaches courses in African and South Asian literatures at the Institut fur Englische Philologie at the Freie Universitat Berlin.
Entries by this Author
A Minor Mishap - A Short Story by JKS Makokha
- By JKS Makokha
- Published February 3, 2010
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Neighbour X had attempted yet again to kill their new mother. This time he had come with a creaking wooden barrow, a sugarcane machete and a gunny sack. He had shouted his intention to chop her into cabbage-sized chunks of flesh then wheel the remains in the plastic gunny sack to the new village police post to report his crime of revenge...Berbera al Somali - Poems by JKS Makokha
- By JKS Makokha
- Published December 5, 2009
- Poetry
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Midnight will approach amidst song and soundas the darkness below becomes more feminine
and like Berbera herself speaks of her mystery
or her forbidden memory or her forgotten glory.
A tiny voice comes into you - Berbera's voice...
Toward a More Perfect Union - Poems by JKS Makokha
- By JKS Makokha
- Published September 5, 2009
- Poetry
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We, the people, record in the annals of regret That in the year of our Lord early 2008
The ears of corn, wheat and millet
Dried in the blood drenched valleys...