Category: Interviews

  • African Literary Podcast Episode 15: Joe Khamisi (with Prestige Books).

    African Literary Podcast Episode 15: Joe Khamisi (with Prestige Books).

    The African Literary Podcast, sponsored by Nairobi-based Prestige Books, interviews Kenyan writer Joe Khamisi. Joe Khamisi has had a long history of public service in Kenya. For many years he worked as a journalist before transitioning into civil service and then parliament. When his legislative career ended, he wrote the nonfiction titles The Politics of…

  • Five questions: Nigerian poet Tolu’ A Akinyemi – “Dead Dogs Don’t Bark.”

    Five questions: Nigerian poet Tolu’ A Akinyemi – “Dead Dogs Don’t Bark.”

    As part of a blog tour featuring Tolu’ A. Akinyemi, the Nigerian poet whose most recent poetry collection is Dead Dogs Don’t Bark agreed to answer five questions. Dead Dogs Don’t Bark is the second poetry collection from Tolu’ A. Akinyemi. The poems speak to all age groups as they feature finding your inner talent,…

  • Interview: Five questions with Ayesha Harruna Attah.

    Interview: Five questions with Ayesha Harruna Attah.

    Ayesha Harruna Attah is the author of the new novel The Hundred Wells of Salaga published by Cassava Republic Press. This is the writer’s second novel. She agreed to answer five of our questions. Ghanaian writer Ayesha Harruna Attah is a writer of no mean repute with her first novel, Harmattan Rain, being shortlisted for…

  • A chat with Kenya Publishers Association Chairman David Waweru

    A chat with Kenya Publishers Association Chairman David Waweru

    David Waweru is the Chairman of the Kenya Publishers Association in his term that runs from 2015-2017. The association was established in 1972 to encourage the widest possible spread of printed books throughout Kenya and beyond, to promote and protect the interests of the publishing industry in Kenya. We spoke with David over coffee at…

  • Oduor Jagero interview: on his new book Ghosts of 1894

    Oduor Jagero interview: on his new book Ghosts of 1894

    Odour Jagero interview: Oduor Jagero burst onto the Kenyan literary scene in 2014 with his self-published debut novel True Citizen. The book was launched with some funfair and had decent reviews both like this one from Nduta Waweru then at the Star. The new book Ghosts of 1894 centres on the genocide that happened 1994 as…