A short story by George Magunga: He lay on my bed looking up at the white nothingness encrypted on the ceiling. His hands were neatly folded on his chest and his legs trimly forming an obtuse angle at his knees. All this time while he kept raving and ranting… Continue reading
The African Poetry Book Series is the major feature of the work of the African Poetry Book Fund. Beginning in January 2014, the imprint will publish four new titles by African poets each year. In addition the series will publish every few years an anthology representing African regions, themes, and ideas. An Editorial Board made … Continue reading
Dear Writer, Do you yearn to celebrate the rhythm, the love and passion within the East African heart? Do you wish to capture and celebrate the love story behind the beautiful, sexy, confident, focused, hardworking and romantic East African – irrespective of ethnicity or race? DrumBeats Romance invites East Africans to tell their own love … Continue reading
Warscapes [www.warscapes.com] is an online magazine providing a lens into current conflicts across the world via literature, literary reportage, art and image. Warscapes provides a highly professional and beautifully curated space for writers from all over the world to publish fiction, non-fiction, analysis and perspectives that are missing in mainstream publishing. Meanwhile, it offers readers … Continue reading
Tony Mochama’s latest literary foray, the novel “Princess Adhis and the Naija Coca Brothers” weaves through two stories that attempt to navigate the underworld of Kenyan crime. Read more from wamathai.com If you are one of those ‘nyahunyo-bearing’ grammar cops, then this book will assault your senses and have you pulling at your hair, because … Continue reading
A Festival of Happiness by Jekwu Anyaegbuna – 2012 Commonwealth Short Story Regional Winner Writers don’t write words; they write ideas. The StoryMoja Hay Festival in Nairobi, Kenya, was a well-crafted basket filled with the fruits of ideas. I ate the apples of camaraderie there. The laughter was almost electrocuting, with its sparkling seeds sprouting … Continue reading
The UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme is open to young professional international writers and visual artists… Continue reading