Richard Oduor Oduku is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief at Sisi Afrika Magazine. He is also a Founding Member of Jalada Africa Trust – a Pan-African collective.
He has been published widely in spaces within and outside the continent. He has been published by Jalada Africa, Saraba Africa, Panorama – The Journal of Intelligent Travel, This is Africa (TIA), Brittle Paper, and The Elephant, and Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, among others.
He was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards (2015), the Brunel International African Poetry Prize (2017), Brittle Paper Award for Essays/Think Pieces (2017) and Brittle Paper Anniversary Award (2018), for the Nonfiction piece “An African in London and Other Reflections on African Literatures’.
The hip hop group bequeathed Kenya a unique and identifiable hip hop soundscape, and their oeuvre remains the only most studied by urban music archaeologists, but what happened?