Lily Mabura Explained

Lily Mabura
Occupation:	Writer
Nationality:	Kenyan
Education:	University of Nairobi (BS) University of Idaho (MFA) University of Missouri (PhD)
Awards:	Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature (2001)

Lily G. N. Mabura is a Kenyan writer known for her short story How Shall We Kill the Bishop, which was shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2010.^[1]

Career and education

Mabura earned a PhD in Engĺish from the University of Missouri, a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Idaho and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Nairobi. Her 2004 thesis was titled On the Slopes of Mt. Kenya.^[2] She is an author and academic, having taught at the University of Missouri and at the American University of Sharjah.^{[3] [4]}

Honours and awards

Mabura has received a number of awards including:

• Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature, Children's Winner 2001 for her book, Ali, the Little Sultan^[5]
• Kenya's National Book Week Literary Award for The Pretoria Conspiracy in 2001
• Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers in 2007^[6]
• University of Rochester's Frederick Douglass Fellowship in 2008-2009^[7]

Selected works

Articles

• Mabura. Lily. 2008. Breaking Gods: an African postcolonial Gothic reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 'Purple Hibiscus' and 'Half of a Yellow Sun'. Research in African Literatures. English. 39. 1. 203–222. 775273497. 10.2979/RAL.2008.39.1.203. 197835535 . ^[8]
• Mabura. Lily G. N.. 2010. Black Women Walking Zimbabwe: Refuge and Prospect in the Landscapes of Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions and Its Sequel, The Book of Not. Research in African Literatures. 41. 3. 88–111. 10.2979/ral.2010.41.3.88. 10.2979/ral.2010.41.3.88. 154648515.
• Mabura. Lily G. N.. 2012-08-26. Teaching Leila Aboulela in the context of other authors across cultures: creative writing, the Third Culture Kid phenomenon and Africana womanism. Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Gulf Perspectives. en. 9. 2. 79–92 . 10.18538/lthe.v9.n2.97. 2077-5504. free.
• Mabura. Lily. Husni. Ronak. 2019-04-01. Polemics of Love and the Family in A New Day in Old Sana'a. Meridians. en. 18. 1. 161–182. 10.1215/15366936-7297191. 187481256. 1547-8424.

Books

• Book: Mabura, Lily. Ali, the Little Suntan. 1999. Focus Publications. 9789966882349. en.
• Book: Mabura, Lily. The Pretoria Conspiracy. 2000. Focus Books. 9789966882462. en.
• Book: Seth the silly gorilla. Mabura. Lily. Wamiru. Celestine M. 2002. Phoenix Publishers. 978-9966470362. Nairobi. English. 55732624.
• Book: Mabura, Lily. Saleh Kanta and the Cavaliers. 2005. Phoenix Publishers. 9789966470195. en.
• Book: Mabura, Lily. How Shall We Kill the Bishop and Other Stories. 2012. Pearson Education/Heinemann. 9780435075415. en.
• Book: The Warm Heart of Africa and Other Stories. Mabura. Lily. Mugubi. John. 2017. Longhorn Publishers (Kenya) Limited. 9789966315748. en.
• Book: Mabura, Lily. remembrance. 2018. Longhorn Publishers (Kenya) Limited. 9789966315717. en.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Previously Shortlisted. Caine Prize. en-US. 2018-03-05.
2. Mabura. Lily. On the slopes of Mt. Kenya. 2004. 64666319. English.
3. Book: Writing, The Caine Prize for African. A Life in Full and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2010. 2010. New Internationalist. 9781906523374. en.
4. Web site: Who's Who in Humanities: Lily Mabura. humanities.academickeys.com. en. 2018-03-05.
5. Web site: African Books Collective: Lily Mabura. www.africanbookscollective.com. 2018-09-16.
6. Web site: 2007 - Lily Mabura. Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers. 2018-03-05.
7. Web site: Past Fellows : The Frederick Douglass Institute : University of Rochester. www.sas.rochester.edu. en. 2018-03-05.
8. Daria. Tunca. 2009-08-21. Annotation of Lily G.N. Mabura's "Breaking Gods: An African Postcolonial Gothic Reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun". Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. 2268/65303 . en. 1940-6231.