Kwani Trust

• Conversation with Rev. fr. Uwem Akpan & Monica Arac de Nyeko

  Posted: August 28, 2008, 8:30 pm by Kwani

  Hekima forum for exploring faith in public life invites you to a conversation between two internationally acclaimed African creative fiction writers to be held on Saturday, 6 September, 2008, 10:00AM – 12 Noon at Hekima College Auditorium, Ngong Road, Nairobi.The writers are: Rev. fr. Uwem Akpan, sj who is author of bestselling collection of [...]

• The Litfest Blues (Part 1) - by Samuel Munene

  Posted: August 28, 2008, 8:17 pm by Kwani

  Hang on a minute. Was the just ended Kwani? Litfest a winner? Yes, according to the mainstream media critics and Kwani’s own official coverage. But wait, isn’t the after party gossip a more reliable gauge of an event’s success? So then can we spare a minute and snoop the litfest unofficial coverage, and only after, [...]

• Ishmael Beah talks to Kwani?

  Posted: August 26, 2008, 12:31 pm by Kwani

  Ishmael Beah, the 28 year old charismatic former Sierra Leone child soldier was here for the Kwani? Litfest.If you missed out on one of the public lectures by this gifted soldier turned author, whose memoir, A Long Way Gone, has sold close to a million copies, then do not worry.He talked to Kwani and [...]

• Kwani? Featured In Melbourne Art Fair

  Posted: August 25, 2008, 3:04 pm by Kwani

  Kwani? was one of the journals featured in Reading South during the Melbourne Art Fair held in early August. Reading South, a brainchild of the South Project, proposed an open and quaint environment for the Melbourne Art Fair public to access a rare collection of critical contemporary art publications that do not normally reach [...]

• Open Mic, Tuesday, September 2

  Posted: August 25, 2008, 1:45 pm by Kwani

  Next month’s Kwani? Poetry Open Mic will feature Karest Lewela. Buried deep in the essence of African Renaissance, Karest is touted as an advocate for social justice. A lover of the alternative sound, Karest’s diction is well thought out, incisive and bound to inspire thought and introspection. No stranger to controversy, Karest weaves creatively in [...]

• The Baobab Prize

  Posted: August 21, 2008, 12:22 pm by Kwani

  The Baobab Prize is an annual award designed to encourage the writing of African literature for young readers. It has been birthed from a recognition of the dearth of fictional African literature that focuses on the youth and encourages them to explore and develop an interest and pride in the African continent. This is a [...]

• Kwani? Attends Pan African Literary Forum

  Posted: August 20, 2008, 7:22 pm by Kwani

  Art Moves Africa (AMA) an organization that aims to facilitate cultural and artistic exchanges within the African continent, recently sponsored a group of Kenyan writers and artists to attend the first Pan African Literary Forum (PALF) in Ghana. The forum, held in July was “a unique learning experience bringing together established and emerging writers of [...]

• Kwani Litfest 2008 - It’s a wrap!

  Posted: August 12, 2008, 12:25 pm by Kwani

  Thanks to all our participants and faculty, and especially the volunteers for making Kwani Litfest 2008 the most succesful EVER. It was an unforgettable week of workshops, symposiums, dinners and drinks - everything a writer loves. We’ve wrapped up the Nairobi segment and moved on to Lamu for a few final days of R&R, with [...]

• Revisioning Kenya - not your problem? by Arno Kopecky

  Posted: August 10, 2008, 12:11 pm by Kwani

  “Revisioning Kenya,” hosted by RaMoMA gallery on a sunny Friday afternoon and billed as the highlight of Kwani Litfest 2008 (with stiff competition from the cocktail party at US Ambassador Michael Ranneberger’s house), was a climax of highs and lows. We arrived to find organizers Dipesh Pabari and Shalini Gidoomal scuttling around with a hunted [...]

• Conflict (or, All A Writer Needs) - by Arno Kopecky

  Posted: August 8, 2008, 9:48 am by Kwani

  Incredibly, no one went over their five minutes. Going by the event’s title – “Writer’s Stories: Unpacking Kenya’s Crisis Session” – not to mention the venue, a Nairobi University lecture hall, all signs were pointing to a listener’s crisis of over-pontification. Instead, we started out with a sneak preview of Wanuri Kahiu’s new film, From A [...]

• Kwani Litfest Gears Up (and editorial gears down)…

  Posted: August 4, 2008, 2:22 pm by Kwani

  Litfest 2008 is in full swing now, with the workshops beginning today and two weeks of fabulous events and international company to look forward to. At the same time, we’ve just put the finishing touches on Kwani? 5, a special twin edition focusing on the post-election trauma and due back any day from the printers (we’ll [...]

• Sunday Salon: Enter at Risk, by Arno Kopecky

  Posted: August 4, 2008, 1:15 pm by Kwani

  Heads up – the Ugandans are here. Two swept in from Kampala to dominate last night’s Sunday Salon: Kalundi Serumaga, a verbal assassin of a journalist, and David Kaiza, who recently traded in journalism for, shall we say, ethnotravelogue-ism. Serumaga preempted his reading – a slow-roasting of the Kenyan intelligencia for the worst of all academic [...]

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