Fancy yourself a science fiction writer? Here’s one for you.
Do you fancy that you can write science fiction that would amaze the world and don’t want to worry about […]
Pumla Gqola book A Rebel Called Simphiwe now in stores
Just after being appointed the chair of the new Etisalat Prize for African writing Wits University professor Pumla Gqola’s latest […]
Writers make it a memorable Sunday Salon
That Eric Wainaina place that used to be called Kifaru Gardens and is now called Elephant House was where all […]
Golden Baobab Prize for Children’s Literature 2013
The fifth annual Golden Baobab Prize, a literary award that invites entries of unpublished African-inspired stories written for young audiences […]
Two Kenyans on announced Kwani Manuscript prize short list
The Kwani Trust was started a over decade ago to ensure that literature from this part of the world grew. […]
The British are coming! (Granta young novelists in town)
The Sunday Salon was a really great event that debuted a few years ago and was the brain child of […]
Anyone for a literal Day of the African Child?
Today is the Day of the African Child. For those not in the know this is the day in 1976 […]
The Olare Mara Kempinski library; opportunities abound.
Last year, I visited one of the most beautiful wildlife destinations on the planet; The Maasai Mara. At that place, […]
Introducing the Etisalat Africa prize for literature
Alrighty folks. Here is another prize for you to try and get your mitts on if you fancy yourself a […]
Lauren Beukes book for Leonardo Dicaprio TV production company
It looks like author Lauren Beukes is going all the way as her book The Shining Girls gets signed up […]
Scenes from Shailja Patel’s Unsilence! Public lecture
Shailja Patel is one of Kenya’s more respected poets both of the reading and performance version as well as a […]
Caine Prize 2013 short list named; Nope, no Kenyans
The Caine Prize for African writing was announced yesterday and the list was quite surprising to say the very least; […]
A buffet of Kenyan authors at the Junction Mall
If you are following the literature space from out of Nairobi you would probably believe that the only people who […]
Niq Mhlongo’s Way Back Home; Very nice
One of my favourite movies is Quentin Tarantino offering From Dusk Till Dawn. The 1997 movie with a starring cast […]
A review of Sihle Khumalo’s “Dark Continent My Black Arse”
I came back home in September 2001 two weeks after Osama Bin Laden decided that bombing East Africa wasn’t getting […]
