Tag: Soma Nami Books
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Soma Nami’s African Book Fair 2024 program unveiled
The program for Soma Nami Books’ African Book Fair 2024, to be hosted in Nairobi, Kenya from August 6 – 11, 2024 is now public. The African Book Fair 2023 was first brought to the Kenyan public when it was hosted at the MacMillan Library, Nairobi last year. The main draw was the moniker “Kenya’s…
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Soma Nami’s African Book Fair 2024 starts August 6.
The African Book Fair 2024, organised by Soma Nami Books, will be hosted at the MacMillan Memorial Library, Nairobi, Kenya from August 6 – 11, 2024. Soma Nami Books, a bookshop founded by Muthoni Muiruri and Wendy Njoroge, launched in Nairobi, Kenya in 2021. It has been hard at work giving their Nairobi audience much…
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A snapshot of Soma Nami’s inaugural African Book Fair.
The African Book Fair, organised by Soma Nami Books, was hosted at the Macmillan Library in Nairobi, Kenya from August 1 – 5, 2023. Soma Nami Books, a bookshop founded by Muthoni Muiruri and Wendy Njoroge, launched in Nairobi, Kenya in 2021. In June this year, they announced The African Book Fair to bring readers…
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Soma Nami’s African Book Fair program announced.
The program for the African Book Fair organised by Soma Nami Books, to be hosted in Nairobi, Kenya from August 1 – 5, 2023 is now out. In 2021, Soma Nami Books, a new bookshop founded by Muthoni Muiruri and Wendy Njoroge, launched in Nairobi, Kenya. Since then, it has been at the forefront of…
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Soma Nami’s African Book Fair for August
The African Book Fair, organised by Soma Nami Books, is set to be hosted at the McMillan Memorial Library in Nairobi, Kenya from August 1- 5, 2023. On August 2021 Soma Nami Books, a new bookshop founded by Muthoni Muiruri and Wendy Njoroge, launched in Nairobi, Kenya. Since then, the bookshop has been at the…
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Brittle Paper Persons of the Year 2021 announced.
The Brittle Paper Persons of the Year 2021 were revealed on December 15, 2021. In 2010, Brittle Paper was started by Nigeria-born USA-based academic Ainehi Edoro-Glines as a new voice in an African literary space that was then starting to show itself on the world stage. In 2015, the platform set up the Brittle Paper…
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Heroe Book Fair 2022 announces dates, theme, bookstore partnership.
Heroe Book Fair 2022, to happen from March 22 – 26, revealed their theme as well as Soma Nami Books as their official bookstore, on October 28, 2022. Heroe Book Fair was founded by Kenyan writer Lorna Likiza to bring together Anglophone, Francophone and German speaking writers, poets, publishers and literary enthusiasts from Africa and…
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African book-focused Soma Nami Books launches in Nairobi.
Soma Nami Books, a new bookshop founded by Muthoni Muiruri and Wendy Njoroge, launched in Nairobi, Kenya on Friday, August 6, 2021. Muthoni Muiruri and Wendy Njoroge met at a book club and made a connection over their shared love of books several years ago. In February 2021, they launched an online bookstore www.somanami.co.ke with…