Tag: Muthoni Muchemi
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Day of the African Child 2018 celebrated by Nairobi based “Time Out.”
The Day of the African Child 2018, celebrated annually on June 16, was this year marked with song and dance led by Nairobi based “Time Out.” The events were hosted at the Kenya National Museum. Parents need all the help they can get to interact with their kids and other parents in the same space…
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Text Book Center Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature 2017 winners announced
The winners of the Text Book Center Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature 2017 were announced on September 30, 2017 as part of this year’s Nairobi International Book Fair. The Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature a brainchild of the Kenya Publishers Association, established in the early 1970’s, is open to Kenyan writers whose work is published…
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10-year-old Chela roots for libraries (embarrassing our adult selves)
So what were you doing when you were ten years old? On my part, I was trying to figure out how the hell to navigate class four and its joys. These included running around the schoolyard, borrowing Anderson’s bike for a ride, and enjoying that one shilling piece of maize with chilli at the bus…
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Storymoja breaks the reading aloud record
They have been threatening to do it and they have finally done it. Our friends from Storymoja have finally broken the work record for the most people reading aloud from the same text at the same time from different venues. This was at the latest record attempt on June 15, the day of the African…
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Buy Attack of the Shidaz! (Another World Record attempt)
I have featured this before. Storymoja publishers have been attempting for the last couple of years been trying to break the work record for the number of people reading aloud from the same text at the same time. This attempt was tried last year and earlier in the year. Well, it’s that time again as…