Dance of the Jakaranda

Q&A: Peter Kimani, author of Dance of the Jakaranda, talks with Maëline Le Lay

By Africa in Words Guest on 23 May , 2019 • ( 1 )

AiW Guest: Maëline Le Lay Peter Kimani is an award-winning author. He was 1 of 3 poets commissioned to compose and present a poem marking Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Born in 1971 in Kenya, he has won the Jomo Kenyatta Prize… Read More ›

“Through the crooked jogs of history”: A Review of Peter Kimani’s Dance of the Jakaranda

By Thando Njovane on 24 July , 2018 • ( 0 )

AiW Guest Thando Njovane The year is 1963. The newly independent British colony of Kenia is renamed Kenya. Inside what used to be colonial officer Ian Edward McDonald’s “Monument of Love”, the Jakaranda Hotel, a young man, Rajan, is kissed… Read More ›