The African Literary Podcast’s episode twelfth sponsored by Nairobi-based Prestige Books features an interview with Kinyanjui Kombani. In Episode 12, we have an interview with Kinyanjui Kombani a writer of fiction for all ages. Kombani has two novels in The Last Villains of Molo and Den of Inequities has written several books for children and […]
Kinyanjui Kombani’s newest novel Of Pawns and Players is now available for pre-order. This is the third novel from the Nairobi, Kenya based author popularly known as the “banker who writes”. Kinyanjui Kombani is a Kenyan novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, and literature activist. He burst onto the scene in 2004 with his debut novel The Last […]
The team running the Goethe sponsored #AfroYoungAdult project have announced the facilitators for the workshops to be conducted across eight African cities. In September 2018, the Goethe-Institut invited aspiring African writers interested in writing for Young Adult fiction to submit short stories of 3000-5000 words in length in Kiswahili, English or French. The best texts […]
Kinyanjui Kombani’s Burt Award winning novel Finding Colombia launched on the side lines of the Nairobi International Book Fair 2018 at the Sarit Centre, Nairobi on September 29, 2018. Kinyanjui Kombani’s young adult offering Finding Colombia was the toast of the town as it won the Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature 2018 at […]
The CODE Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature 2018 shortlist was announced on August 2, 2018. The five in the running for the prize are Vera Akumiah, Kinyanjui Kombani, Ruby Yayra Goka, Elizabeth-Irene Baitie, and Hiwot Walelign. The CODE Burt Award is a literary award and readership initiative that recognizes excellence in locally authored […]
An epic running of the Storymoja Festival 2017 is set for September 27 – October 1 in Nairobi, Kenya. The festival theme this year is “Black Peace.” The Storymoja Festival, founded by Storymoja Publishers in 2007, is one of the most important literary festivals on the African continent today. It was started with a small […]
Elnathan John and Kinyanjui Kombani were the featured guests at the Literary Crossroads event at the Goethe Institut Nairobi on February 16, 2017. The event was moderated by James Murua. Literary Crossroads: Conversations with African Writers is an event hosted by the Goethe Institut in the cities of Johannesburg, Lagos and Nairobi. The event sees […]
Kinyanjui Kombani is one of Kenya’s more well-known writers in town in recent times with his two novels The Last Villains of Molo (our review) and Den of Inequities. He has also written a few nonfiction books. The writer today announced to the world that two of his books are set to be used in […]
I have featured this before. Storymoja publishers have been attempting for the last couple of years been trying to break the work record for the number of people reading aloud from the same text at the same time. This attempt was tried last year and earlier in the year. Well its that time again as […]
When the people at Storymoja Publishing started their first festival in 2008 they were trying something new. They wanted to do a festival for book lovers but they didn’t believe that enough of us would leave our local bars to go somewhere to talk about books. The organisation opted to have the “Nyama Choma Festival” […]
The Storymoja Festival is officially the biggest literary festival in Kenya and one of the fastest growing on the continent. The festival is making its first regional stopover in Nakuru at the Kenya National Library Services on May 28 – 30, 2015. The Nakuru edition promises some very cool guest that residents of that famous […]
We here at JamesMurua.com would like to introduce a new thing in the African literature scene: The African Author Google Hangout. This is a hangout done to ensure that fans of African literature will be able to interact with their favourite authors from all over the continent. This is with the help of new technologies […]
The literature program of the Daystar University where students learn the business of writing called The Creatives Academy ended on Saturday after 12 weeks. It was one of the most innovative programs for students of literature in recent times in Kenya. Students were offered an opportunity to interact with professionals in writing thus learn how the […]
Kenyan authors Kinyanjui Kombani and Jason Kap Kirwok both published by Longhorn Publishers are set to launch their latest books together in Nairobi in a few days. Readers of this blog will know that I am a huge fan of Kinyanjui Kombani who has two titles to his name; The Last Villains of Molo and […]
Banker and novelist Kinyanjui Kombani‘s became very famous locally because of his book The Last Villains of Molo. In the book he tells a fictional tale of the clashes that wracked Kenya in the 1990s before our famous post election crisis in 07/08. The writer’s latest book Den of Inquities is published by Longhorn Publishers […]
