Shailja Patel

Shailja Patel (shailja.com), a multiple-award-winning Kenyan poet, artist and activist, has appeared in venues ranging from NYCs Lincoln Center to Durbans Poetry Africa Festival. She premiered her one-woman show Migritude at the World Social Forum in Nairobi, then toured with it globally. Patel, a 2009 African guest writer at the prestigious Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden, also works with Kenyans for Peace, Truth and Justice to empower grassroots Kenyan activists.

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[spishoable]

@huffyoga um... your post makes no sense. are you upset that she's not making the kind of art you want to see? if so, then maybe you should channel your frustrations into creating your own award-winning art presentation instead of taking them out on award-winning artist shailja patel.

[somethingtangy]

God, this breaks my heart.. she is such a powerful poet and performer.

[drmspaz]

this should have 100000000000000000 views. Go figure.

[zubitv]

wow. <3

[huffyoga]

I did not hear the kind of hate this woman expresses after 3000 plus were mass murdered (deliberately) over here -- at least not that anyone would give an award-winning artistic presentation for.