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 […]
Zukiswa Wanner launches books in Harare, Zimbabwe
t was an evening to remember at the Book Cafe in Harare last night as Zambian born South African/Zimbabwean author […]
A drink with Mukoma Wa Ngugi
This Thursday was a special day as I had a beer with author and Cornell University professor Mukoma Wa Ngugi. […]
Guest blog: Lessons for writers from an anthology compilation project
OK folks. Lets try something new today. Like learn what the folks who were compiling an anthology that I am […]
Storymoja 2012 guest writer Dinaw Mengestu wins ‘Genius grant’
Its been a good time for some in the writing business. Ng’ang’a Mbugua recently won the Wahome Mutahi Literature award […]
A visit to the ongoing Nairobi International Book Fair
Yesterday saw me visiting the Nairobi International book fair in Nairobi and I have to say that I had pretty […]
Robert Ndwiga’s Terrorists of Jubaland
The Kenya Defence Forces aka the KDF were deployed in October 2011 on Kenya’s first offensive motion as an independent […]
Another year, another Storymoja Hay Festival.
Like the night turns into day and day back into day another Storymoja Hay festival was upon us. This year […]
Barbara Kimenye’s passing is just sad
I woke up this morning to the news that Barbara Kimenye the author of the the Moses Series of children’s […]
