Theatre lovers: Storymoja Hay Festival – included in the 500/day ticket price

Posted by Storymoja Africa ⋅ September 30, 2010

Saturday 2nd October: 4pm – 5:30pm (courtesy of The Theatre Company)

The Theatre Company presents My Moving Home, a stage performance inspired by Rogers Otieno’s tough past in rural Nyanza, and first love in Nairobi.

Saturday 2nd October: 7-9pm (Courtesy of Alliance Francaise)

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‘Mwana Mdogo wa Mfalme’- a production in Kiswahili of the celebrated story ‘Le Petit Prince’ (The Little Prince) by the French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Le Petit Prince was translated into Kiswahili by Walter Bgoya (Tanzanian publisher and writer) and Philipe Kruse (German national). It is a profound and deeply moving tale laced with poetic metaphor. The production is being directed by Samwel Mwangi of Heartstrings Kenya using sound and music to narrate through monologue and acting.

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Knowledge is the most powerful engine for economic growth worldwide. To accelerate development in our beloved country, we have to nurture a reading culture that goes beyond academics and politics. Growing Kenya ’s reading culture is Storymoja’s mission as it feeds our business), our personal call as writers, and our patriotic duty. Storymoja is a venture recently formed by a collective of five writers who are committed to publishing contemporary East African writing of world-class standard. We source widely to identify good local writers, help them edit their submissions to exacting standards, and develop eye-catching book-covers.

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