# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shailja-patel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:04:06.363Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shailja-patel"
name: "Shailja Patel"
slug: "shailja-patel"
description: "Shailja Patel is an Indian-Kenyan poet, playwright, theatre artist, and political activist. She is most known for her book Migritude, based on her one-woman show of the same name, which was funded by the Ford Foundation. CNN characterizes Patel as an artist \"who exemplifies globalization as a people-centered phenomenon of migration and exchange.\" She divides her time between Nairobi, Kenya, and Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a founding member of Kenyans For Peace, Truth and Justice, a civil society coalition that works for an equitable democracy in Kenya. Her book, Migritude, was published by Kaya Press in 2010."
tagline: "Kenyan writer"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1970-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.3
  momentum:             1.12
  historical:           7.871670666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A7_%D9%BE%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "شیلجا پٹیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%DA%86%D8%A7_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "شايلچا پاتيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shailja_Patel"
    title: "Shailja Patel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shailja_Patel"
    title: "Shailja Patel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shailja_Patel"
    title: "Shailja Patel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shailja_Patel"
    title: "Shailja Patel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shailja_Patel"
    title: "Shailja Patel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shailja_Patel"
    title: "Shailja Patel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shailja_Patel"
    title: "Shailja Patel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3959024"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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