Adipo Sidang'

Adipo Sidang’ is an award-winning author, poet, playwright and consultant on governance and culture issues. His first work of fiction was a collection of poems titled Parliament of Owls published by Contact Zones Series Nairobi in 2016. The title poem Parliament of Owls was adapted into a stage play and staged in Nairobi by Agora Theatre. His second work A Boy Named Koko, a novella, won the 2017 Burt Awards for Young Adult Literature and was shortlisted for the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature (Young Adult) in 2019. Sidang’ was part of the jury for Goethe Institut’s 2018 Afro Young Fiction Competition for young adult fiction from Africa. He’s currently working on a number of projects including a collection of poems in his mother tongue titled Abaramach which will be out in March 2021. Email: adiposidang@gmail.com

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Speak to My Heart! A Place for Indigenous Languages in African Fiction

African mother tongue languages are increasingly being abandoned, with sub-Saharan Africa being one of the regions with the most endangered languages. But the solution will not...
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Widow Inheritance: Throwing out the Baby With the Bath Water

Wife inheritance has been treated as one of the legacies of past backward African culture but as ADIPO SIDANG' argues, are we throwing the baby with...

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