Not everyone can write fiction. That’s not really a bad thing if you think about it as there are other forms of expressing yourself in the written word like memoir, literary reportage, essays et al. For those who want to get into that part of the writing game then the Commonwealth Short Story Prize cats […]
Category: Nonfiction
If you are Kenyan educated then you must know the name Malkiat Singh. He is the guy who has written over 100 books that are used as textbooks in Kenyan schools. It has emerged that the writer has sold off the rights to all of his books to Longhorn Publishers for Kshs83 million – I […]
South African writer Zukiswa Wanner emerged onto the South African literary space in 2006 with her thought provoking book The Madams. It was about a character who is black and opts to have a white maid (in Kenya we call them house helps) and the drama that goes with it all. It was an insightful […]
Dr Julius King’etich is currently the chief operating officer of the Equity Bank the biggest bank in Kenya by customer base. He has also stints at as a professor in the University of Nairobi as well as at the Kenya Investment body. It is however his stint at the Kenya Wildlife Services that he will […]
We have all heard of Martin Oduor-Otieno on these East African shores especially if you are interested in big business and specifically in banking. He came to national prominence when he was ‘plucked” from Barclay’s Bank to be in the “dream team” of technocrats who worked with the then Secretary to the cabinet Richard Leakey […]
Just after being appointed the chair of the new Etisalat Prize for African writing Wits University professor Pumla Gqola’s latest book A renegade called Simphiwe is now in South African stores. The book is set to be launched in Johannesburg on the fourth of July. The book is a look at South African singer and […]
I came back home in September 2001 two weeks after Osama Bin Laden decided that bombing East Africa wasn’t getting him the attention he as a true evil genius deserved. This he did by orchestrating an attack on several American sites the most remarkable of which was the bringing down the World Trade Centre in […]
The Paralympic games ended in London last Sunday and the victorious team has already come home even meeting the British envoy at his house in Nairobi for a huge bash. I am an advocate for the disabled regularly lambasting pubs in my weekly venue review for lacking disability access. Whilst everyone needs to have access […]
One of the loudest noises in the last few months is a campaign by a dude called Zachary Muturi Kimotho who was on a quest to propel a wheelchair to South Africa to the closest spinal injury medical facility. The campaign dubbed “Bring Zack Back”, supported by the Kenya Paraplegic Association and Safaricom was aimed […]
