About the Book
MIGRITUDE is the US debut of internationally acclaimed poet, playwright and activist Shailja Patel. Part memoir, part political history, part?performance tour-de-force. MIGRITUDE weaves together family history, reportage, and monologues of violence, colonization, and love, to create an achingly beautiful portrait of women’s lives and migrant journeys undertaken in the boot print of Empire.
About the Author
Shailja Patel was born and raised in Kenya, has lived in London and San Francisco, and now divides her time between Nairobi and Berkeley. She honed her poetic skills in performances that have received standing ovations throughout Europe, Africa, and North America.
She has been described by the Gulf Times as “the poetic equivalent of Arundhati Roy” and by CNN as “the face of globalisation as a people-centred phenomenon of migration and exchange.” She has appeared on the BBC World Service, NPR, Al-Jazeera, and her poems have been translated into twelve languages. She is a recipient of a Sundance Theatre Fellowship, the Voices of Our Nations Poetry Award, a Lambda Slam Championship, and the Outwrite Poetry Prize. Visit her at www.shailja.com
