t was an evening to remember at the Book Cafe in Harare last night as Zambian born South African/Zimbabwean author Zukiswa Wanner launched two of her books in the Zimbabwean capital. The books in question are her first book The Madams (2006) and her most recent book Men of The South (2010). It was homecoming […]
This Thursday was a special day as I had a beer with author and Cornell University professor Mukoma Wa Ngugi. Cornell Professor Mukoma Wa Ngugi was in town recently to do a literary workshop for people in the arts and literary journalism trade. The event was facilitated by the Kenyan Chapter of the African Arts […]
OK folks. Lets try something new today. Like learn what the folks who were compiling an anthology that I am currently reading called Behind The Shadows had to go through to get to the end. We all want to be published. We all want to see our name in print and don’t tell me otherwise. […]
We love motivational books in Kenya don’t we? If there is one genre of books we snap up like crazy it is the one that tell you how to be a multimillionaire. Not billionaire mind you as thats an income bracket that many cant seem to wrap their minds around. We love Anthony Robbins. And […]
Its been a good time for some in the writing business. Ng’ang’a Mbugua recently won the Wahome Mutahi Literature award for his excellent Different Colours read this weekend. He was doing it for the second time in a row. The prize is Kshs50,000. Even happier was Anthony Mugo who collected a cool Kshs1,000,000 in the […]
Yesterday saw me visiting the Nairobi International book fair in Nairobi and I have to say that I had pretty decent time. You can still visit it as it ends on Sunday. I was one of the guests at the Nairobi International Book Fair yesterday when I went to the Sarit Centre. The event, which […]
The Kenya Defence Forces aka the KDF were deployed in October 2011 on Kenya’s first offensive motion as an independent nation. They went to Somalia to fight the Al Shabaab terror movement who had taken over huge swathes of that nation and were using it as a base to do their evil deeds. Deeds that […]
Like the night turns into day and day back into day another Storymoja Hay festival was upon us. This year the venue had moved to the National Museum at the Museum Hill. Awesomeness. The Storymoja Hay Festival just seems to be getting better by the year. This years edition started on the Thursday at the […]
I woke up this morning to the news that Barbara Kimenye the author of the the Moses Series of children’s books is dead. Very sad. There is hope for children’s literature still though. The Guardian yesterday reported that Barbara Kimenye passed on at the age of 82. It doesn’t stated how the grand dame of […]
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 […]
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