Tag: Oswald Okaitei

  • Storymoja Festival 2017 set for Nairobi

    Storymoja Festival 2017 set for Nairobi

    An epic running of the Storymoja Festival 2017 is set for September 27 – October 1 in Nairobi, Kenya. The festival theme this year is “Black Peace.” The Storymoja Festival, founded by Storymoja Publishers in 2007, is one of the most important literary festivals on the African continent today. It was started with a small…

  • A snapshot of Uganda’s Babishai Poetry Festival 2017

    A snapshot of Uganda’s Babishai Poetry Festival 2017

    The Babishai Poetry Festival 2017 was hosted in Uganda from August 4-6, 2017. There was a sea of activity in Uganda as the world of African poetry was focused on the East African country. They were there for the third edition of the Babishai Poetry Festival which was started in Kampala in 2015 as an…

  • Babishai Niwe Poetry Festival 2016 to make Kampala splash

    Babishai Niwe Poetry Festival 2016 to make Kampala splash

    The Babishai Niwe Poetry Festival 2016, founded by Beverley Nambozo, will be making a Kampala splash as poets and other performers land in the Ugandan capital from 24-26th August 2016. There will a flurry of activity over a three day period in venues around Kampala featuring some of the most well-known names in African poetry…