Tag: Muthoni Garland
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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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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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Young Kenyan writer Joseph Bokea debuts at Goethe Nairobi
We have the newest kid writer in town and his name is Joseph Bokea. Bokea wrote his debut novel Magic a fantasy fiction novel when he was a mere eleven years old. With his entry into the fantasy fiction arena, we finally have the next generation of fantasy fictionistas to join the likes of Nnedi…
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Storymoja Publishers join social media site Pinterest
One of the most innovative publishers in Kenya has to be Storymoja Publishing led by Muthoni Garland. They have the most output fiction-wise where some of the new companies operating in Kenya are concerned. They also have several initiatives to bring reading to the fore like Start A Library. The biggest event in the firm’s…
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Caine Prize 2013 shortlist named; Nope, no Kenyans
The Caine Prize for African writing was announced yesterday and the list was quite surprising to say the very least; four Nigerians and 1 Sierra Leonian. No other nationality was named in what many consider one of Africa’s leading writing prizes. Kenyans have a pretty cool relationship with two Binyavanga Wainaina and Yvonne Owuor winning…