Gachagua: Young poet with mature vision

Clifton Gachagua. [PHOTO: COURTESY]

By EVAN MWANGI

The award-winning collection of poetry by Clifton Gachagua, Madman at Kilifi, is out and will be in Nairobi bookshops from any time now.  Published in the US by the University of Nebraska Press, Gachagua’s poetry might disappoint because it lacks the overt political statements we find in some of Okot p’Bitek’s works.