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Kenyan writer and translator Wangui wa Goro
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Education University of Leicester; University of London; Middlesex University.
Occupation: Academic, social critic, researcher, translator and writer
Wangui wa Goro (born 1961) is a Kenyan academic, social critic, researcher, translator and writer based in the UK. As a public intellectual she has an interest in the development of African languages and literatures, as well as being consistently involved with the promotion of literary translation internationally, regularly speaking and writing on the subject..
Background and career
Professor Wangui wa Goro is a writer, translator, translation studies scholar and pioneer who has lived and lectured in different parts of the world including the UK, USA, Germany and South Africa.
Featuring mentoring for translators in a digital program this summer, the new partnership involves UCLA, Waseda University, the University of East Anglia, and more in a three-year program.
In Tokyo’s Shinjuku ward. Image – iStockphoto: Cindy Bissig
‘The Increasing Availability of Exceptional Translations’
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