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Kenya: Putting On the Kwani Lit Fest

10.07.2008 17:55    allafrica.com
As dusk descends, preparations continue apace outside the main entrance of the National Museum. Trees planted in sturdy plastic bags brought in for the occasion are being wrap-dressed in gold shimmery fabric. A disco set of powerful spotlights alternate green,


Kenya: Kwani Lit Fest Faculty

10.07.2008 17:55    allafrica.com
Kwani faculty comprises a selection of some of the most exciting contemporary writers from Africa and beyond. Setting new agendas, they will teach, explore, debate, read and engage through a wide ranging series of panel discussions, literary lunches, workshops, and

Africa: African Writing in Our Time

10.07.2008 17:55    allafrica.com
Each generation of writers is confounded by the simple and clichéd paradox - the more the world changes the more it remains the same. The imagination wants to be freed from the hold of the past, and yet it finds

Kenya: Is the Pen Mightier Than a Machete?

10.07.2008 17:55    allafrica.com
Is the pen mightier than the panga? This was the question confronting Kenya's literary establishment in the opening days of 2008, as war spread throughout Kenya's urban centers and across the fertile Rift Valley in the nation's heartland. As belligerent


Kenya: Binyavanga Wainaina - The Writer in a Time of Crisis

10.07.2008 17:55    allafrica.com
Aurelie Journo (PhD Literature student) talks to Binyavanga Wainaina, the founder of Kwani? about this year's Kwani? Litfest that will take place in Nairobi and Lamu from the 1st to the 15th of August. As the discussion went on, they

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