Tag: Storymoja
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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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Storymoja kick off the year with a bang
Storymoja Publishers is known worldwide for their festival the Storymoja Festival which happens in September every year. The thing about them is that as the name of the organisation states, it is a publishing outfit not just an organiser of festivals. The outfit started 2016 with a bang as they do a variety of initiatives.…
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Writivism 2016 Creative Writing Workshops Callout
A callout for the Writivism 2016 workshops to be held next year in five different African cities was announced at the Storymoja Festival on Friday 19th September 2015. That’s right ladies and gentlemen, if you think that you have got what it takes to hack it in the writing game then this is your chance.…
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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…
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A snapshot of the Storymoja Careerpedia 2015
When the people at Storymoja Publishing started their first festival in 2008 they were trying something new. They wanted to do a festival for book lovers but they didn’t believe that enough of us would leave our local bars to go somewhere to talk about books. The organisation opted to have the “Nyama Choma Festival”…
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Storymoja Festival set to hit Nakuru in late May
The Storymoja Festival is officially the biggest literary festival in Kenya and one of the fastest-growing on the continent. The festival is making its first regional stopover in Nakuru at the Kenya National Library Services on May 28 – 30, 2015. The Nakuru edition promises some very cool guests that residents of that famous town…
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Storymoja breaks Kenya’s national reading record
According to Guinness World Records™, the record for the most people reading aloud from the same document simultaneously is 223,363 participants at 909 venues across the United States for an event organized by Walden Media on December 13, 2006.The good people at Storymoja have been gunning to break that record for the last few years…
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Storymoja for World Record reading attempt. Again
Storymoja Publishers is most famous for the annual literary festival that they host in Nairobi, Kenya. They are also the people behind several titles. They are also the people who have several initiatives that they push to ensure that they spread the importance of reading. One of their most noteworthy initiatives to bring the focus…