Nairobi Book Festival to kick off on November 30.
The Nairobi Book Festival, powered by Nuria Books, will be hosted at the MacMillan Library, Nairobi from November 30 – […]
Katama Mkangi’s Walenisi among PEN/Heim grant recipients 2023
Katama Mkangi’s Walenisi, to be translated by Richard Prins’, is among the PEN America literary grant recipients 2023 announced on […]
A snapshot of the Kistrech International Poetry Festival 2022.
The Kistrech International Poetry Festival 2022 was hosted in several venues around Kenya from October 8 – 14, 2022. The […]
Gloria Mwaniga for Global Story of the Month on October 29.
Gloria Mwaniga is this month’s featured guest at the Global Story of the Month at the Alliance Française Nairobi on […]
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber wins Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s The House of Rust was declared the winner of the inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for […]
Episode 27: Kenya Writes with Goethe Institut Khadija Abdalla Bajaber.
The Kenya Writes guest for today is Mombasa-born and bred Khadija Abdalla Bajaber. She won the Graywolf Africa Prize in […]
Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature 2021 winners announced.
The winners of the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature 2021 were announced at a ceremony in Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday, […]
Book Digest: Binyavanga Wainaina, Monique Severin, Nike Campbell, Yessoh G.D
We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Binyavanga Wainaina, Monique […]
Scholastica Moraa wins Kendeka Prize for African Literature 2022
Scholastica Moraa was declared the winner of the Kendeka Prize for African Literature 2022 at a ceremony in Thika, Kenya […]
Meja Mwangi: Literary Methods and the Future of Kenyan Writing
The Kenyan Readathon was hosted at the Alliance Française Nairobi on September 10, 2022. Prolific author Meja Mwangi sent an […]
Ignyte Awards 2022 winners announced.
The winners of the Ignyte Awards 2022, brought to you by Fiyah Literary Magazine, were announced on Saturday, September 18, […]
Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature 2021 shortlists announced.
The shortlists for the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature 2021 have been revealed by the Kenya Publishers Association today, September […]
Kendeka Prize for African Literature 2022 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the Kendeka Prize for African Literature 2022 was announced on Thursday, September 15, 2022. The Kendeka Prize […]
Book Digest: Seven Anthologies by African writers to enjoy
We give you some anthologies to keep you busy this weekend as well as to look forward to in the […]
Moraa Gitaa is writer-in-residence at Hungary’s Institute for Advanced Studies
Moraa Gitaa is a writer-in-residence at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Other Africans […]
