Muyaka bin Haji al-Ghassaniy

We Are Still in the Fort is a curated selection of about seventy poems by Muyaka bin Haji al-Ghassaniy, divided into three sections spanning the quotidian, the amorous, and the political. The first part, I Swipe Their String of Fish: Poems of Mombasan Society, features his often satirical commentary on daily life in Mombasa. The second part, Take Your Misery...