# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abdilatif-abdalla
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:31:47.292Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abdilatif-abdalla"
name: "Abdilatif Abdalla"
slug: "abdilatif-abdalla"
description: "Abdilatif Abdalla is a Kenyan writer and political activist. He was imprisoned for his support of the Kenya People's Union, and began writing poetry in solitary confinement. A collection of poems from this time were published as a book titled Sauti ya Dhiki (1973), which was awarded the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature. He is the Chair of the Safal Kiswahili Prize for African Literature."
tagline: "Kenyan writer, poet and a politician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-04-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.673938666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdilatif_Abdalla"
    title: "Abdilatif Abdalla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdilatif_Abdalla"
    title: "Abdilatif Abdalla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdilatif_Abdalla"
    title: "Abdilatif Abdalla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdilatif_Abdalla"
    title: "Abdilatif Abdalla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdilatif_Abdalla"
    title: "Abdilatif Abdalla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdilatif_Abdalla"
    title: "Abdilatif Abdalla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B1%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%2C_%D0%90%D0%B1%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%84"
    title: "Абдалла, Абдилатиф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdilatif_Abdalla"
    title: "Abdilatif Abdalla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q308189"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump