Tag: Kinyanjui Kombani

  • Wangari the Storyteller features at Kenya National Library Kids Book Club

    Wangari the Storyteller features at Kenya National Library Kids Book Club

    Wangari the Storyteller was the featured performer at Kenya National Library Kids Book Club on July 15, 2017. The Kenya National Library Service is a body of the Government of Kenya established to develop, promote, establish and equip libraries in the East African nation. One of the most iconic of the libraries on its books…

  • Cosmos Book Club features Kinyanjui Kombani’s The Last Villains of Molo

    Cosmos Book Club features Kinyanjui Kombani’s The Last Villains of Molo

    Event: Cosmos Book Club features Kinyanjui Kombani’s The Last Villains of Molo Date: Saturday January 7th 2017 Time: 14:00–16:00hrs. Venue: Cosmos Coffee House, Highwayy Mall, Mombasa Road (opposite Nyayo Stadium). In The Last Villains of Molo, Kinyanjui Kombani in his debut novel speaks about the tale of Kenya that we hear about in hushed conversations…

  • A snapshot of the Nairobi International Book Fair 2016

    A snapshot of the Nairobi International Book Fair 2016

    There was a blur of activity in Kenya’s capital city as the Nairobi International Book Fair 2016 was hosted at the Sarit Centre from 21-25 September 2016. Also happening was the Wahome Mutahi Literary Prize 2016 on Saturday evening. The Nairobi International Book Fair 2016 is the longest running book fairs in the Horn of…

  • A review of Kinyanjui Kombani’s Den of Inequities

    A review of Kinyanjui Kombani’s Den of Inequities

    Book: Den of Inequities Author: Kinyanjui Kombani Publisher: Longhorn Year of publication: 2013 Number of pages: 188 Kenyan writer Kinyanjui Kombani has a new book out called Den of Inequities. His first book was The Last Villains of Molo and it addressed the tricky issue of the series of crises that occurred in the Rift…

  • Anyone for a literary Day of the African Child?

    Anyone for a literary Day of the African Child?

    Today is the Day of the African Child. For those not in the know this is the day in 1976 when a bunch of kids in Soweto decided that they won’t learn in Afrikaans in schools and went to the streets to protest. Now the children of Soweto and all of South Africa have the…