Day: 20 May 2016

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Awards Festivals Fiction Mozambique

Mozambique’s Festival Fim do Caminho Literary Prize 2016 gets record entries

The Mozambique based Festival Fim do Caminho Literary Prize 2106 got entries in the dozens this year. The theme of the competition this year was Crime in Mozambique. Festival Fim do Caminho (this is Portuguese, in English it the The Mossuril Film Festival) is an annual film festival held in Mossuril, Mozambique Island and Nampula, […]

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Fiction Interviews Kenya

Oduor Jagero interview: on his new book Ghosts of 1894

Oduor Jagero
Oduor Jagero

Odour Jagero interview: Oduor Jagero burst onto the Kenyan literary scene in 2014 with his self-published debut novel True Citizen. The book was launched with some funfair and had decent reviews both like this one from Nduta Waweru then at the Star. The new book Ghosts of 1894 centres on the genocide that happened 1994 as […]