Kwani? Journal
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? 08
Back at the car, our hero, let's call him Pepe, watched a slug crawl toward his tire as though it was a giant rubber breast. He took a moment to catch his breath and wondered if he'd left his heartbeat at the foot of the building. The slug became a nipple inside the silver alloy wheel. He saw it...
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Kwani? 07
Kwani? has always been significantly connected to the Diaspora through the individuals who founded it, and its early contributors. Its seventh issue picks up the idea of leaving and of return, something that has framed the conversations and hybrid identities of many Kwani? writers. Kwani? 07...
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Kwani? 06
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...
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Kwani? 05 Part 02: Revelation and Conversation
This second 400 pages of a twin edition further examines Kenya in the context and violent aftermath of its 2007 elections. Here, writers, photographers, poets and cartoonists provide further collective narratives on what we were before, and what we became, during the epochal first 100 days of 2008....
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Kwani? 05 Part 01: Maps and Journeys
This is the first of a twin edition that examines Kenya in the context and violent aftermath of its 2007 elections is available from bookstores from February 28th. In the two issues, over 50 writers, photographers, poets and cartoonists provide a collective narrative on what we were before, and...
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Kwani? 04
The fourth volume of Kwani? presents a multitude of new literary voices from Kenya and the African diaspora. Well-known contemporary Kenyan writers, Binyavanga Wainaina, Muthoni Garland, and Doreen Baingana share these pages with fast rising newcomers: Billy Kahora, Mukoma wa Ngugi and...
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Kwani? 03
In all aspects - editing, design, layout and breadth of material, Kwani? 03 introduces a new chapter to the African creative writing scene. Themed on the seventies, the cover introduces a collaboration between visual and comic art and text in interesting and interactive ways. Established writers,...
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Kwani? 02
This edition explores contemporary literary and artistic concerns with new Kenyan and African identities. Building on the first issue, Kwani? 02 adds to the exciting Kwani? 01 to mirror the post-millennial angst of young Kenyan writers, poets, cartoonists and photographers. In the issue,...
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Kwani? 01
Kwani? 01 is the first of a series of annual editions of the Kwani? journal. Kwani? 01 launched a renewed interest in the reading of local literary material by Kenyans and international readers. It showcases various aspects of the creative energies that seemed dormant in Kenya in the 1980s and...
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