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Clifton Gachagua

Clifton Gachagua is the winner of the 2013 Sillerman Prize for African Poetry. His collection, Madman at Kilifi was published by University of Nebraska Press. He was recently selected for Africa39, a selection of thirty-nine of the most promising authors under the age of 40 from Sub-Saharan Africa and the diaspora. Gachagua works at Kwani? as an assistant editor.

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