Tag: Pen Kenya

  • Scenes from Shailja Patel’s Unsilence! Public lecture

    Scenes from Shailja Patel’s Unsilence! Public lecture

    Shailja Patel is one of Kenya’s more respected poets both of the reading and performance version as well as a human rights activist. The US-based artist is also highly respected for her work Migritude a 90-minute spoken-word theatre show. It uses her trousseau of saris, passed down by her mother, to unfold hidden histories of…