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• Ngwatilo Mawiyoo publishes her 'blue Mothertongue' poetry collection

  Posted: March 15, 2010, 7:21 pm by N.W

  There's a new book out there, which you must have. For those of you inNairobi, you may pick it up this weekend at Silverbird bookstores,Bookstop, Textbook Center and a few other bookshops...
  "blue mothertongue" written by Ngwatilo Mawiyoo a talented poet and performer.
  Stephen Partington says:"Utterly contemporary and distinct from that verse which so oftentalks only to itself, Mawiyoo’s poetry will talk to you, as it did tome."
  John Sibi-Okumu writes:"It is the friction between cultural loyalties that informs NgwatiloMayiwoo’s poetic sensibility. Not for her the strident declarations ofracial pride or the stirring evocations of an idyllic Africa destroyedby the outsider that marks much of the poetry that came before hers.She is content to let the specific suggest the empirical and themundane to suggest the profound.
  When those of her own generation have children, Ngwatilo Mawiyoo willhave provided them with teachable, homegrown specimens of the poet’scraft that will be a worthy testament to her times."
  Would love to hear the thoughts you have on it as you read it - I knowa couple of you have already seen it...share...
  I have had a chance to peruse through the book, loved the simplicity and the outline done by Jim Chuchu. Kudos to Ngwatilo.
  Look out for "blue mothertongue" - The Show!
  

• Kenya: Nairobi becomes East Africa's tech heartbeat

  Posted: March 15, 2010, 12:13 pm by N.W

  Kenya, and specifically Nairobi, has in recent months become the technology heartbeat of Africa with conferences, launches, meet ups, summits and unconferences all running in quick succession.
  
  Read this analytical post I wrote on  Global Voices Online

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