Granta Interviews Billy Kahora

Ollie Brock talks to Billy Kahora Granta’s latest New Voice and author of the story ‘The Gorilla’s Apprentice’. Billy is the managing editor of Kwani Trust.

OB: When did you first become interested in writing?

BK: I was always interested but had too much reading to worry about writing my realities. I started writing in my early twenties, when everything around me started contorting in unprecedented ways. And there emerged a reality that was so unexpected across society that, for me, the only way to deal with it was through writing. And that has never really stopped.

Read the rest of the interview here.