Rajat Neogy
Rajat Neogy | |
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| Born | 17 December 1938 Kampala, Uganda |
| Died | 3 December 1995 (aged 56) San Francisco, California, United States |
| Alma mater | School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |
| Occupations | Writer, poet, editor, publisher |
| Years active | 1961–1995 |
| Known for | Founder and editor of Transition Magazine |
| Notable work | Transition Magazine |
Rajat Neogy (17 December 1938 – 3 December 1995) was a Ugandan of Indian Bengali ancestry, was a writer, poet and publisher. In Kampala in 1961, at the age of 22, he founded Transition Magazine, which went on to become one of the most influential literary journals in Africa. In the words of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, "he (Neogy) believed in the multi-cultural and multifaceted character of ideas, and he wanted to provide a space where different ideas could meet, clash, and mutually illuminate. Transition became the intellectual forum of the New East Africa, and indeed Africa, the first publisher of some of the leading intellectuals in the continent, including Wole Soyinka, Ali Mazrui and Peter Nazareth."