Unlearn, Un-Know And Then, Maybe, Write

Over the last few years, African writers have found something larger than ‘a room of one’s own’ – Virginia Woolf’s exhortation of what the writer needs to practice his/her art – in a larger space shared between alike types from across the continent. Normally held for a week, in some corner of Africa, the continental creative workshop, hosted by different institutions, has become a fixture in the African contemporary Lit and Cultural calendar. Nigerian writer and poet, Tolu Ogunlesi, reflects on his experiences within the workshop and what it means to him as a writer from the continent. Read more

Open Mic And Poetry Competition

Kwani Trust invites you to a grand end of the year Open Mic and Poetry Competition.

Date: 1st December 2009.
Venue: Club Soundd, Hamilton House, Kaunda Street.
Time: 7PM to 10PM

Prizes:
The winner will walk away with a cash prize of Ksh. 5000. The 1st runners up Ksh . 3000 and 2nd runners up Ksh. 2000.Poets and members of the audience will have a chance of winning Kwani? Books.

The poetry competition is kindly supported by Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO)

Entry : Kshs 100.

KARIBUNI

How To Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina (Narrated by Djimon Hounsou)

Watch Djimon Hounsou reading Binyavanga Wainaina’s How To Write About Africa here. The story is available under the Kwani-ni? series in all leading bookshops.

Where To Find Kwani? Books

Bookshops:

1. BookStop Yaya Centre
2. Bookpoint Moi Avenue
3. Westland Sundries Westland’s/Village Market
4. Simply Books ABC Place
5. Text book Center Sarit Centre
6. Prestige Booksellers Mama Ngina Street
7. Legacy Books Yaya Centre
8. Book Villa
9. Stanley Bookshop
10. Safari kit Bookshop
11. Nairobi University Bookshop
12. City Books
13. Nu Metro Media Store – The Junction
14. Numetro Media Store – Westgate
15. Chania Bookshop

Convenient Shops:

1. Blue Rhino – ABC Place
2. Nippon – JKIA
3. Kenya Duty Free Shop – JKIA
4. Access Cyber – Yaya Centre
5. African Heritage
6. Museum Society of Kenya
7. Karen Blixen Coffee Shop.
8. capital Realtime

New Outlets
1. City books Centre
2. Uchumi Sarit Centre
3. Uchumi Ngong Road
4. Uchumi Mombasa Road
5. Uchumi Buruburu
6. Uchumi Langata Hyper
7. Kenyatta University bookshop
8. Nairobi University bookshop
9. Daystar University bookshop

Outlets In Mombasa

1. Spectrum – Nakumatt Nyali
2. Jahazi Café – Old Town
3. Bahari Hotel Boutique
4. Mohawk – Old Town
5. Special Effect – Ratna square
6. Paper Connections – Ratna Square
7. Labeka Gallery – Moi Avenue
8. Voyager Bamburi – Westlands Sundries

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