by Ama Ata Aidoo, and New Daughters of Africa (2019), edited by Margaret Busby. She is a regular participant at the Royal African Society's annual literature and book festival Africa Writes, among other events curating the symposium "Africa in Translation" that features writers, artists, publishers, translators, readers and scholars, under the aegis of SIDENSi, an international organisation set up "to promote translation, traducture and information knowledge management across disciplines". She is also the founder member of TRACALA, the Translation Caucus of the African Literature Association. Over the years she has also been on advisory committees or boards of numerous organisations, including the Women's Studies Network UK, the British Centre for Literary Translation, the Arts Council England, PEN International and the African Literature Association. She has served as a council member of the Caine Prize for African Writing, for which she was a judge in 2007. Awards and honours She is the recipient of the 2021 Flora Nwapa Society Award. References External links Wangui wa Goro, "Deconstructing culture in Africa", Pambazuka News, Issue 278, 16 November 2006. Kalamu ya Salaam, "Tarzan Can Not Return to Africa But I Can — S-T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z: PANAFEST 1994", ChickenBones: A Journal. "Wangui wa Goro - Translation as fusion in global Igbo/African pasts and futures". Wangui wa Goro delivering the keynote lecture at the 5th Annual Igbo Conference on Igbo Fusions: Past, Present and Futures. "Interview: Peter Thompson and Wangui wa Goro on Translation", Journal of the African Literature Association, Volume 5, 2010 - Issue 1, pp. 189–197. Published online: 4 April 2016. 1961 births Living people Kenyan academics Kenyan writers Kenyan women writers Translators to English Academics of SOAS University of London