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Books Tides of Time: Selected Poems, Silent Voices; Poems, Cascades: Poems, Lament of the Silent & Other Poems | ||
Jared Angira (born 21 November 1947) is a Kenyan poet. He has been called "the country's first truly significant poet".
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Life
Angira studied commerce at the University of Nairobi from 1968 until 1971. He contributed to the first (1968) issue of the journal Busara, and was appointed its editor-in-chief in 1969. He also founded the Kenya Writers' Association.
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