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Advocacy Kenya

147,496 Kenyan children take part in Storymoja Read Aloud initiative.

147,496 children in 836 schools across 40 counties participated, backed by 2,337 Reading Ambassadors took part in the Storymoja Read Aloud initiative on June 16, 2022. In 2013, the Storymoja Read Aloud campaign was started to get kids from as many schools around Kenya as possible to read from the same text at the same […]

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Awards Jamaica Nigeria Poetry

Saddiq Dzukogi, Lorna Goodison on Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 22 shortlist

Saddiq Dzukogi and Lorna Goodison are on the shortlist for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022 announced on July 20, 2022. The Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry is awarded by Arrowsmith Press, in conjunction with Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and The Walcott Festival in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. It is awarded to a full-length book of poems […]