Tag: Maimouna Jallow
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International Publishers Association Nairobi Seminar: PublisHer forum
Dozens of women publishers and other women professionals in their industry congregated for the PublisHer forum in Nairobi on June 13, 2019. The International Publishers Association (IPA) hosted a seminar with dozens of players in the publishing industry from Africa and further afield at the Mövenpick Hotel, Nairobi from June 14-15. Preceding the seminar was…
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A snapshot of the Re-imagined Storytelling Festival 2018.
The Re-imagined Storytelling Festival 2018 was hosted at the Alliance Francaise, Nairobi on December 15, 2018. Here is a snapshot of the festival. Storytelling is the art of telling stories in public to an audience for their listening (and viewing) pleasure. Storytelling has been making serious inroads into the Kenyan literary space in the last…
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Sanaa Theatre Awards 2018 winners announced in Nairobi.
The Sanaa Theatre Awards 2018 winners were announced at a colourful ceremony at the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi on December 3, 2018. The Sanaa Theatre Awards recognise excellence in the field of theatre and the performing arts in Kenya. The awards, founded by George Orido in 2013, have celebrated some of the best names…
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Book Buzz Foundation posts up Ake Festival 2017 interviews
The Ake Arts and Book Festival 2017 was hosted in Abeokuta, Nigera from November 14-17, 2017. The Book Buzz Foundation, the festival organisers, have posted videos from festival guests online. The Ake Festival 2017 was the fifth edition of the highly regarded literary event in the West African nation. The festival took the theme of…
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Ama Ata Aidoo for Ake Arts and Book Festival 2017
The Ake Arts and Book Festival 2017 will take place at the Arts and Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta on November 14-18, 2017. This year’s theme is “This F-Word” and conversations will focus largely on creative women doing amazing things both on the African continent and beyond. Time really flies when you are having fun. It…
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Lola Shoneyin and Maimouna Jallow for Nairobi
Lola Shoneyin and Maimouna Jallow are the featured guests for Goethe Nairobi series, Artistic Encounters. They will be at the Maendeleo House on June 15, 2017. Artists Encounteric, a collaboration between Goethe Kenya and author Zukiswa Wanner, features different types of artists on one stage at the same time. The concept has already had two…
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A snapshot of the Storymoja Ghana Festival 2016
The Storymoja Ghana Festival 2016 was hosted at the W.E.B. Dubois Centre in Accra, Ghana from 21-25 September 2015. We were there when the Storymoja Festival was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 2007 when we had a little event called the Nyama choma festival. Knowing our love for all things nyama choma (roast meat in…
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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor teases The Dragonfly Sea at her Oeuvre
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor teased her new book The Dragonfly Sea at the endnote address of an Oeuvre in her honour at the African Leadership Centre on Friday 10th June 2016. It was a special time for Kenyan writer Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor as she was feted with an Oeuvre on her work in the last decade…
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African books reimagined at Goethe Nairobi
It was a special time on Thursday evening with five African books reimagined by respected performers at the Goethe Nairobi. The performers were Mumbi Kaigwa, Patricia Kihoro, Aleya Kassim, Raya Wambui, and Maimouna Jallow and they performed Marjorie Oludhe-Macgoye’s Coming to Birth, Zukiswa Wanner’s Maid In SA, Doreen Baingana’s Tropical Fish, Nadifa Mohamed’s The Orchid Of Lost…
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African literary deliciousness in Nairobi, Joburg tonight
It’s all happening in Nairobi and Johannesburg as writers converge on their big towns for African literary deliciousness. Last night Niq Mhlongo unleashed his latest literary gem a short story collection called Affluenza to the world with a launch at Sakhumzi’s Restaurant on Vilakazi Street. We are hearing good things. If you know anyone who…
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Modern African Tales contest launched at World Storytelling Day
A global contest for modern African folk Tales called Re-imagined! was launched at the World Storytelling Day celebrations in Nairobi on Saturday. The contest is curated by Maimouna Jallow. Re-imagined! is a global online storytelling contest inviting African writers, poets, playwrights and journalists to re-invent and update the African folktale for a new millennium. The challenge is…
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World Storytelling Day 2016 marked in Nairobi
World Storytelling Day is an annual celebration of the art of oral storytelling celebrated all over the world on or near March 20th. On this day, as many people as possible tell and listen to stories in as many languages and at as many places as possible, during the same day and night. In Nairobi, the events…
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World Storytelling Day 2016 in Nairobi will be epic!
World Storytelling Day is a global celebration of the art of oral storytelling celebrated every year on (or near) March 20th. This year the day with the theme “Strong Women” will have a special event in Nairobi called, Re-imagined! A Magical Day of Storytelling.The magical world of stories will be recreated in Nairobi for the…
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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 images and videos
Here are some images and videos from the fourth day of the Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015 taken with my trusty camera phone. Maimouna Jallow, Prof Niyi Osundare, and Okey Ndibe Chuma Nwokolo and Jonny Steinberg live tweeting the event Nimo Jirdeh moderates Ciku Kimeria Mary Harper moderates Maimouna Jallow Prof Mpalive Msiska, Nadifa Mohamed,…