Sanya Osha

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Sanya Osha is the author of several books, including Postethnophilosophy (2011), Dust, Spittle and Wind (2011), An Underground Colony of Summer Bees (2012), and Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Shadow (expanded ed., 2021), among other publications. A Cape Town, South Africa–based scholar, he is a research associate at ZMO Berlin and a fellow of the African Studies Centre in Leiden.

Sacrifices for the Truth: On Kenyan Writer Abdilatif Abdallah

May 27, 2025 Sanya Osha
Photo by Laurin Rinder / Adobe Stock Abdilatif Abdallah (b. 1946, Mombasa) is a major Swahili poet who was, until recently, largely unknown to English readers. A beautiful volume of his work,…
Abidjan ’99: A Journey through Disbelief

May 2023
Sanya Osha
Looking for relief and new possibilities, a lecturer at the University of Ibadan travels to Cape Town, but the route is anything but direct. By 1999 the massive exodus out of Nigeria had attained a c…