# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mukoma-wa-ngugi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:57:28.137Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mukoma-wa-ngugi"
name: "Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ"
slug: "mukoma-wa-ngugi"
description: "Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ is a Kenyan American poet, author, and academic. He is associate professor of literatures in English at Cornell University and co-founder of the Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Writing. His father is the author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. His family was deeply impacted by the British suppression of the Mau Mau revolution."
tagline: "Kenyan writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/M%C5%A9koma_wa_Ng%C5%A9g%C4%A9_0446.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1971"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.68
  momentum:             9.068857589984349
  historical:           4.417316
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C5%A9koma_wa_Ng%C5%A9g%C4%A9"
    title: "Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C5%A9koma_wa_Ng%C5%A9g%C4%A9"
    title: "Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C5%A9koma_wa_Ng%C5%A9g%C4%A9"
    title: "Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C5%A9koma_wa_Ng%C5%A9g%C4%A9"
    title: "Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/M%C5%A9koma_wa_Ng%C5%A9g%C4%A9"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6951143"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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