Zimbabwe Votes - An Interview With Zenzele Ndebele
March 28, 2008
(Zenzele Ndebele is a Zimbabwean journalist, managing editor of zimpatriot.com, and the creator of Gukurahundi: A Moment of Madness, a documentary about Robert Mugabe’s military campaign against the Ndebele people of southern Zimbabwe. Zenzele snuck across the border to debut his film in Johannesburg last November; on returning home, police threats of violence and incarceration forced him into hiding for several weeks. Kwani? caught up with him for an online interview about Saturday’s presidential election.) Read more
Kwani? Open Mic - April 1, 2008
March 27, 2008
Presenting:
Black Skillz
With
Live Neo Soul Music
by Anto
7-10pm, 1st April
Club Soundd
Kaunda Street
Entry Only KSh100
Limited Open Mic slots are available on a strictly first-come
first-serve basis during the sound check between 5 & 6 pm on the day.
The Road To Eldoret - Tony Mochama
March 25, 2008
The scene from his hotel room screen in Nakuru still fills his mind. Let’s call him M. He’s from Muranga, he still drives the Datsun 120 Y that he bought in 1972 when he was a twenty two year old boy, and he’s got a family in the outskirts of Eldoret where his wife runs the family farm (cows and wheat) that he bought in 1982 from a white man fleeing the coup that “never happened,” as he is fond of saying. “So I got the farm cheap.” Read more
How to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina
March 24, 2008
Author: Binyavanga Wainaina
Series: Kwanini
This trio of sharp-witted essays takes irony to a new level. In How to Write About Africa, Wainaina dissects the African clichés and preconceptions dear to western writers and readers with a ruthless precision. Read more
