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Kwani? 08
Kwani Trust
In the years since Kenya's 2007 elections and their violent aftermath, questions of generational succession and the question of devolution as mandated by the new constitution have come to the fore even as the old political questions remain. The eighth edition of Kwani? explores questions around...
One Day I will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina
Kwani Trust
The East African issue of Binyavanga Wainaina's memoir, One Day I Will Write About This Place, published by Kwani Trust, will be launched in Nairobi on 1st June 2012. This is a signature moment in East Africa's contemporary literature. As Founding Editor of Kwani Trust, Binyavanga Wainaina...
The Chimurenga Chronic, out October 19th in Nairobi, Johannesburg and Lagos
It was Sun Ra who said it a long time ago: “Equation wise, the first thing to do is consider internal linktime as officially ended… we’ll work on the other side of time… we’ll bring them here through either isotope, internal linkteleportation, transmolecularzation… ” .The time was 1974 and...
Kwani? 06 - The Kenya I live in
Kwani Trust
We launched a short story competition in July 2009 and received over 500 submissions from all over Kenya. Winners were announced in February 2010. Here is a snippet of what the process of "The Kenya I Live In" Short Story competition has been. Congratulations once again to all those who...