Readings & Launches
One Day I will Write about this Place : Book Launch
Date: 1st June 2012
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Kenya Railways Museum off Haile Selassie Avenue
Entry : Copy of 'One Day I will Write About This Place', @ Ksh 500 (purchased at the entrance)
Readings & Launches
The Kwani? eBookstore Virtual Launch
Date: 24th May 2012
Time: 2.30pm
The Kwani? eBookstore will go live on 24th May 2012 at 2.30pm, featuring a selection of our titles converted to eBooks and audio books. The Kwani? eBook platform, developed in partnership with Digital divide Data is the first step in developing structures and networks through which our content can be disseminated and which have the potential to earn our published writers a much wider readership. A further selection will be developed in the coming months, exploring ways to drive literary consumption locally and in Africa as a whole through mobile technology, and elsewhere through the internet.
Kwani? Launches New Manuscript Prize
To celebrate the African novel and its adaptability and resilience, Kwani Trust announces a one-off new literary prize for African writing. The Kwani? Manuscript Project calls for the submission of unpublished fiction manuscripts from African writers across the continent and in the Diaspora.
Our flagship publication, Kwani?, is a journal founded by some of Kenya’s most exciting new writers and has 6 print editions to date, each containing more than 300 pages of new journalism, fiction, experimental writing, poetry, cartoons, photographs, cutting edge academic papers, ideas, literary travel writing & creative non-fiction.
Kwani? 06, isan anthology of short fiction and poetry by Kenyan And African writers born after September 1978. Farah Aideed Goes To Gulf War by Mehul Gohil is a dystopic paean that explodes our obsessions with mono-Kenyan identity and binary understanding of Nairobi (Nairobbery vs Green City...
Kwanini? Series
Our pocket-sized series; Kwanini?, contains bite-sized stories told by the best contemporary writers and artists in Africa - Chimamanda Adichie, Yvonne Owuor, Binyavanga Wainaina, Parselelo Kantai, Richard Onyango and Enock Ondego.
" Always use the word 'Africa' or 'Darkness' or 'Safari' in your title. Subtitles may include the words 'Zanzibar', 'Masai', 'Zulu', 'Zambezi', 'Congo', 'Nile', 'Big', 'Sky', 'Shadow', 'Drum', 'Sun' or 'Bygone'. Also useful are words such as 'Guerillas', 'Timeless', 'Primordial' and...
The Kwani? Fiction, Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction Series include titles such as The True Story of David Munyakei by Billy Kahora, Kizuizini by Joseph Muthee, Tale of Kasaya by Eva Kasaya, a re-issue of The Stonehills of Maragoli by Stanley Gazemba and To Be A Man.
" ...I do not want
to be crippled
before I can walk,
to be shoved
in the face of machismo
and whipped
to take it up
in the name of being a man..."
Ndanu Mungala ( Breaking through)
"...Now she falls,
And now she bleeds.
The camera takes it all in.
It is...
A new series of photography books was launched in 2009 with the publication of Kenya Burning, focusing on the post election violence. Upcoming titles in this series include 24 Nairobi, a title documenting various aspects of life in the city within 24-hour span.
8 Nairobi photographers and writers present a celebration of their city through the themes of Death, movement, spirituality, nightlife, and music - through the lens of a camera. This collection also offers a selection of photographs of different aspects of Nairobi life. Accompanying this is an...
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