Mwepu Kalenga was born on 12 February 1978 in Mwepu Kenkele village, Haut- Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo. He graduated in 2005 in English Language and Literature a...view moreMwepu Kalenga was born on 12 February 1978 in Mwepu Kenkele village, Haut- Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo. He graduated in 2005 in English Language and Literature at University of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he is an assistant and master student. He is preparing his master thesis on “Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Wole Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forest and The Swamp Dwellers.” He is mostly interested in African Literature and postcolonial ecocriticism.
This collection of poems is his first publication in which he explores his paradoxical apprehension of the world and instigate humans’ direction for the advent of a “world other,” marked by social and environmental justice. He is working on his first novel entitled “Where Does It Go: A Ship with No Key?” that will be published in the coming days.view less