Tag: Moraa Gitaa
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Moraa Gitaa is writer-in-residence at Hungary’s Institute for Advanced Studies
Moraa Gitaa is a writer-in-residence at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Other Africans at the fellowship are Clement Emeka Akpang and Adaora Osondu-Oti. Hungary-based Institute for Advanced Studies Central European University has one Writer in Residence fellowship and one Visual/New Media Artist in Residence fellowship to provide selected…
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Kenyan Burt Awards 2014 nominees announced
The Kenyan shortlist for the Burt Awards for African Literature 2014 was announced at a breakfast today. The Burt Award for African Literature is an award for fiction targeted at young adults in four African countries; Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Tanzania. The award which started in 2012 is sponsored by Code, a Canadian NGO that…
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Talking books at Marjorie Oludhe-Macgoye’s Ngara home
Where Kenyan writers meet at Marjorie Oludhe-Macgoye’s home in Ngara, Nairobi, and talked books. One of the best movies I have watched in my life was Finding Forrester a movie at the turn of the millennium starring Sean Connery. Connery acts as William Forrester a reclusive writer who lives in Harlem and who has lived…