KLF Director at Ubud Writers And Readers Festival, Bali




Shalini Gidoomal - Ubud Writers And Readers Festival
Date:2008-10-22	Duration: 00:07:07 Size: 2.83 MB
Synopsis: Shalini Gidoomal is a freelance journalist, writer, businesswoman and inveterate traveller, born, and currently living in Nairobi. She has worked extesively on various UK and international magazines and newspapers.

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Kwani Litfest Featured on Africa Journal

This year’s litfest is certainly not about to fade into our distant memories. Reuters have just released a feature for the Africa Journal entitled, “Is anyone reading in Kenya” which takes its story from this year’s Kwani Litfest.

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Rasna Warah comments on Ishmael Beah

“As part of the Kwani Listfest, the writers engaged with a cross-section of Kenyan society, from diplomats to students, about a subject that is still fresh in the minds of most Kenyans – the causes and consequences of the mayhem witnessed during the first two months of this year.”

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Sunday Nation, August 10th

Walrus Blogger Arno Kopecky writes about times through the festival

NAIROBI—It was all over. We were gathered on the patio of the national museum’s café , post-morteming in the shade, coffee cups shaking in our hands. Binyavanga Wainaina—the next Achebe, or maybe just a good talker—going on about where’s a razor to shave his dreadlocks off: “I just want to see the shape of my skull.”

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KLF Featured in Terraviva Africa

Writing For Peace By Najum Mushtaq

Since January, a group of politically-conscious poets, writers and storytellers in Kenya has been writing an alternative account of the violence that shook Kenya during the first two months of the year. Their work is now part of the evidence before the Waki Commission inquiring into post-election violence in Kenya.

Read the full article here.