Clifton Gachagua

Clifton Gachagua is the author of Madman at Kilifi and appears in a chapbook box set, Seven New Generation African Poets (University of Nebraska Press).

Gachagua was an editor at Kwani?

His work appears in Naijographia, Manchester Review, Saraba, Jalada, Kwani?, Poetry Foundation, The Gonjon Pin and Other Stories (Caine Prize Anthology), AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, Sunspot Jungle, Enkare, Africa39, PEN Foundation: New Voices, Harvard Divinity Journal, among others.

His manuscript, For You Sweetheart, I’ll Sell Plutonium Reactors, was selected for the Kwani? Manuscript Project. He has been translated into Italian, and into music.

He writes for TV and radio. He is a founding member and contributing editor at DRR (down river road).