Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ
Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ (born 1971) is a Kenyan poet and author. His father is the author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
Biography
Mũkoma was born in 1971 in Evanston, Illinois, USA, but raised in Kenya, before returning to the United States for his university education. He holds a BA in Political Science from Albright College and an MA in Creative Writing from Boston University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he specialized in how questions of authorized and unauthorized English, or standard and non-standard English, influenced literary aesthetics in Romantic Britain and Independence-Era Africa. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University.
He is the author of Conversing with Africa: Politics of Change (reviewed by New Internationalist) and Hurling Words at Consciousness (poetry, Africa World Press, 2006). He is also a columnist for BBC Focus on Africa magazine and former co-editor of Pambazuka News.
He has published poems in Tin House Magazine, Chimurenga, Brick magazine, Smartish Pace, and Teeth in the Wind, One Hundred Days (Barque Press); New Black Writing (John Wiley and Sons); Réflexions sur le Génocide rwandais/Ten Years Later: Reflections on the Rwandan Genocide (L'Harmattan Press).
Podcasts:
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by Janet Jackson
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by Heart
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by Roots
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by Pogues
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by Az
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by Lucky Dube
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by Blues Traveler
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by The Blue Dogs
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by The 3rd and the Mortal
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Make me
by: Janet JacksonI see what ya doin
come here
so you think you're ready?
I just need you to...
Baby can you move?
make me groove
show me what you do
make me move
Baby can you move?
make me groove
show me what you do
make me move
baby make me...
you came here to sit or party
tell me what's the deal
gon' get up and shake your body
come and take me there
Ain't nobody else like you
only you got the moves you do
ain't nobody else move like you
only you got the moves to prove it baby
we're gonna have a good time
me and you gon get it tonight
Baby can you move?
make me groove
show me what you do
make me move
Baby can you move?
make me groove
show me what you do
make me move
baby make me...
Don't stop it baby... don't stop till you get it up
Don't stop it baby... don't stop till you get it up
Don't stop it baby... don't stop till you get it up
Don't stop it baby... don't stop till you get it up
I see you against the wall boy
what you waitin for
I want you to take control now
get up on the floor
Ain't nobody else like you
only you got the moves you do
ain't nobody else move like you
only you got the moves to prove it baby
we're gonna have a good time
me and you gon get it tonight
Baby can you move?
make me groove
show me what you do
make me move
Baby can you move?
make me groove
show me what you do
make me move
baby make me...
it's gettin hot in here
just how I like
we gon dance it up
until we see the light
if you feel like I feel
you can get it tonight
but first you gotta make me say
ooooooooooooo make me make me baby
make me say
ooooooooooooo make me make me baby
Baby can you move?
make me groove
show me what you do
make me move
Baby can you move?
make me groove
show me what you do
make me move
baby make me...
Baby can you move?
make me groove
show me what you do
make me move
Baby can you move?
make me groove
show me what you do
make me move
baby make me...
Don't stop it baby... don't stop till you get it up
(baby make me)
Don't stop it baby... don't stop till you get it up
(baby make me)
Don't stop it baby... don't stop till you get it up
(baby make me)
Don't stop it baby... don't stop till you get it up