Tag: Digital Bedbugs
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Makena Onjerika’s “Digital Bedbugs” reboots Mbogi Ya Mawriters.
Makena Onjerika’s edited anthology Digital Bedbugs was featured at the first physical Mbogi Ya Mawriters event since the onset of Coronavirus at Alliance Francaise Nairobi on October 29, 2020. Mbogi Ya Mawriters is a series featuring Kenyan writers hosted at the Alliance Française Nairobi that kicked off in 2019. Mbogi is a Kiswahili word meaning…
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Makena Onjerika-edited anthology “Digital Bedbugs” available for your reading pleasure.
Digital Bedbugs, a new anthology edited by Caine Prize winner Makena Onjerika, has been available for readers since January 15, 2020. Makena Onjerika burst onto the African literary scene when she won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2018 for her story Fanta Blackcurrant. Since then, we have heard her writing in anthologies like…