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Awuor Ouma - Blue Hands, Brown Skin, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Blue Hands, Brown Skin

Poems

Av Awuor Ouma

Del i serien Cave Canem Poetry Prize

324 kr

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Blue Hands, Brown Skin is a powerful debut poetry collection about belonging, loss, migration, and the quiet resilience of women who carry entire homelands in their bodies. Moving between Kenya and Berlin, these poems explore how migration reshapes a life and what it means to grieve far from home, to navigate love and language across borders, and to return to oneself after being broken open by the world.Through storytelling and intimate lyricism, the poet examines how the body remembers what history tries to erase—from girlhood rituals and ancestral wisdom to the bureaucratic coldness of immigration lines and the loneliness of diaspora. Each poem becomes an altar to survival, a place where memory, motherhood, and identity meet.What makes this collection distinctive is its fusion of personal narrative with cultural myth, its fearless attention to the spiritual and emotional worlds of African women, and its insistence that softness, even in exile, is a form of strength. Blue Hands, Brown Skin is a testament to how we carry home within us, in our grief, in our names, and in the stories that refuse to be burned.
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AWUOR OUMA is a Kenyan poet and writer living in Europe. She writes from the spaces between faith and fatigue, love and leaving, memory and migration. After years of writing in obscurity, she turns ordinary conversations about ordinary people into something worth remembering. Her work appears in Doek! and The Kalahari Review. She is the author of Face Me, Darling, her debut novella.

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Having grown up in Nairobi and watched Kenya change through different generations, I found Blue Hands, Brown Skin deeply familiar and moving. The poems capture experiences many Kenyans will recognize: the pull of home, the weight of family, the language of grief, the taste of ugali on a Sunday, the chaos of Nairobi traffic, and the quiet ways culture travels with us wherever we go. Awuor Ouma writes with honesty and precision, turning ordinary memories into powerful reflections on identity, belonging, and resilience. Even when the poems travel across borders, they remain rooted in Kenya’s rhythms, values, and contradictions. This is a collection that speaks to anyone who has left home, returned home, or carried home within them. It is both deeply personal and unmistakably Kenyan.

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