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  • “AFRICALLS” - Multimedia Coming to a Laptop Near You

    Posted: April 29, 2008, 12:16 pm by Kwani

    AFRICALLS? is a documentary film, a book, and an exhibition that shows the work of five artists and two production centers of contemporary art in seven African cities. It shows their interests and the urban context from which they create their works. AFRICALLS? explores the key aspects of these artists’ personalities and creative processes, going beyond the art object they make in Dakar, Douala, Cape Town, Rabat, Luanda, Nairobi and Maputo. AFRICALLS is an audiovisual journey to today’s art of an urban Africa: cosmopolitan and unknown, contemporary and global.

  • Congratulations Martin Kimani!

    Posted: April 29, 2008, 11:58 am by Kwani

    Kwani? is proud to announce that one of our writers, Martin Kimani, has been selected for the African Leadership Initiative fellowship. This is a cross-disciplinary initiative that brings together the best and brightest young leaders from across the continent to promote their own work and encourage the diffusion of their ideas across professional boundaries.
    Way to go Martin.

    For more information, visit:
    http://www.aspeninstitute.org/site/c.huLWJeMRKpH/b.612147/
    and
    [www.nationmedia.com]

  • Binyavanga Wainaina Hits North America’s Litfest Scene

    Posted: April 29, 2008, 11:31 am by Kwani

    Having just shared the stage with Chinua Achebe for a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Things Fall Apart at New York’s Bard College, Kwani? founding editor Binyavanga Wainaina is set to represent Kenya at two more prestigious literary festivals.
    On Wednesday, April 30, Wainaina will be speaking at the PEN ‘World Voices’ Festival of International Literature in New York City. This preeminent festival describes itself as “an attempt to enrich and sustain global dialogue,” and involves some of the world’s best writers from several countries.
    Next, on Sunday, April 4, Wainaina will lead a discussion on African writing at Quebec’s Blue Metropolis litfest, “the world’s first multi-lingual literary festival,” where this year’s theme is travel writing.
    And on September 17, after coming home to preside over Kwani’s own litfest during the first two weeks of August, Wainaina will be delivering the keynote address at the University of Toronto’s “Things Fall Apart at 50″ conference.

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