Dear Mama

A Luo's Letter Addressing Gossips, Girl Fights, and Gashes

in Girlhood Studies
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Esther O. Ohito Rutgers University, USA esther.ohito@rutgers.edu

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Esther O. Ohito (ORCID: 0000-0002-7827-7945) is a creative writer and an assistant professor of English/literacy education at the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, the inaugural Toni Morrison Faculty Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research, and the current Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program Fellow at Maseno University, located not far from her homeland of Ugenya in southwestern Kenya. Email: esther.ohito@rutgers.edu

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01 Mar 2022
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