"Unbury Our Dead With Song" in Granta

Read an excerpt from Mukoma Wa Ngugi’s novel, Unbury Our Dead With Song (2021 Cassava Republic Press), in Granta:

"I knew enough about the Tizita to believe it – that the first time you heard a Tizita that was yours, you fell in love with it. You never forget your first love; you never forget your first Tizita. Where were you when J. M. Kariuki was killed? Or Ruth First, Lumumba, Kennedy or Malcolm X? Where were you when you first heard it?"

Read the full excerpt here.

Mukoma Wa Ngugi is an Associate Professor of Literatures in English at Cornell University and the author of The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership, the novels Mrs. Shaw, Black Star Nairobi, Nairobi Heat, and two books of poetry, Logotherapy and Hurling Words at Consciousness. He is the co-founder of the Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature and co-director of the Global South Project – Cornell.

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