Jared Angira (born 21 November 1947) is a

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poet. He has been called "the country's first truly significant poet".

Life

Angira was born in 1947 in

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, Kenya. He studied commerce at the

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Profile at African Poetry Review.
/ref> from 1968 until 1971. He contributed to the first (1968) issue of the literary journal ''

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'', and was appointed its editor-in-chief in 1969. He also founded the Kenya Writers' Association.

Works

* ''Juices'',

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(1970) * ''Silent Voices'', London (1972) * ''Soft Corals'', London (1973) * "Experimental Writing", in Gurr and Calder, ''Writers in East Africa'', 1974.

References

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