Tag: Ciku Kimeria
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Nakuru Kitabu Fest hosted in Kenya’s fourth city
Joan Thatiah, Ciku Kimeria, and Richard Oduor Oduku were the featured writers at Nakuru Kitabu Fest on Sunday, January 28, 2024. Nakuru Kitabu Fest aims to enhance and encourage artistic expression through reading, writing, performance, and intellectual literary discourses and forums in Nakuru City. The first edition of the event, founded by Pita Oduor, featured…
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Action-packed Nakuru Kitabu Fest for January 28
Joan Thatiah, Ciku Kimeria, and Richard Oduor Oduku are the guests of the Nakuru Kitabu Fest on Sunday, January 28, 2024. Nakuru Kitabu Fest, founded by Pita Oduor, is aimed at enhancing and encouraging artistic expression through reading, writing, performance, and intellectual literary discourses and forums in Nakuru City. The first edition was hosted at…
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Book Digest: Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, Sue Nyathi, Ciku Kimeria, Laila Lalami.
We wrap up book news for our readers in our Book Digest feature. Today our focus is books from Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, Sue Nyathi, Ciku Kimeria, and Laila Lalami. Ciku Kimeria, Dance of the Monkeys Publication Date: October 26, 2020 Genre: Literary Fiction Language: English Blurb From the author of the well-acclaimed, unputdownable, Of goats…
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Ciku Kimeria teases new novel in Short Story Day interview
Ciku Kimeria has given an interview with Short Story Day Africa where she speaks about a variety of issues include what compels her to write, lessons from self-publishing as well teasing her new novel. Ciku Kimeria burst onto the literary scene with her book Of Goats and Poisoned Oranges in 2013 which I have reviewed…
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Storymoja Festival 2015: Blog numero deux
The last day of the Storymoja Festival 2015 was on Sunday. The Arboretum, like the name tells you, is a place dedicated to trees so on a typical weekend you will find a specific demographic there. It’s a special mix of lovers courting, joggers err… jogging and people doing picnics with religious organisations making it…
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The Storymoja Festival 2015 is here!
The Storymoja Festival 2015 is here ladies and gentlemen! The hype and the tweets and the Facebook statuses and Instagram posts and the planning has culminated to one of the biggest cultural event in the region is upon us. The festival promises some of the best discussions with the book being at the centre of…
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Joint winners go home with Rwanda’s Huza Press short story competition
We have a winner. Or rather two winners. The winners of the inaugural Huza Press short story competition are Darla Rudakubana and Daniel Rafiki. The two winners of the first Rwandan short story competition that we have ever heard of was announced at the Century Park in Nyarutarama on Saturday. The two share the prize…
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Saraba eyes East Africa with Storymoja collaboration
We all know Saraba for their work in the anthology space as well as with their new manuscript project. This time round the team from Saraba has opted for an East African invasion by working with the Storymoja Festival. As you might know, Storymoja is Kenya and East Africa’s definitive literary festival. Seriously. Just search…
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Hargeysa International Book Fair: Day 5 images and videos
Here are some images and videos from day five of the Haregysa International Book Fair 2015 taken with my trusty camera phone.
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 4 is getting hot in here
As the delegates from around the world get even more acclimatised to the land and people of Somaliland the festival gets better and better. August 4th was the fourth day of the festival and we were now firmly in the second half of activities. There were panels galore with moderators who would grill panelists about…
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Hargeysa International Book Fair: Day 5 images and videos
Here are some images and videos from day five of the Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015 taken with my trusty camera phone.
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 5 winding it down
The Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015 is winding down to the sadness of delegates, both local and international, who are interacting, learning, and have become friends with one another. There were several highlights from this day. One of these was the luncheon that the Mansour Hotel, which is where all international guests stayed, gave. At…
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 4 is getting hot in here
As the delegates from around the world get even more acclimatised to the land and people of Somaliland the festival gets better and better. August 4th was the fourth day of the festival and we were now firmly in the second half of activities. There were panels galore with moderators who would grill panelists about…
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The 8th Hargeysa International Book Fair is coming
The eighth running of Somaliland’s premier literary shindig, the Hargeysa International Book Fair, will be happening from 1st – 6th August at the Gualid Hotel. It promises to be very cool. The number of people flying in from all over the world to visit what some have described as the safest city in the region…
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Writivism Festival 2015 Day 4: Politics, selling books and breaking down language barriers
Saturday in Kampala, Uganda saw the African writing community in the form of Writivism Festival 2015 converging at the city’s National Theatre for a series of activities. The keynote address in the evening was given by Ugandan poet, fiction writer, scholar and columnist John Nagenda. Nagenda is also a senior media advisor to President Yoweri…