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June 13, 2023

Binyavanga Wainaina’s Great Scatter of Work (Exclusive)

How to Write About Africa gathers vivid, powerful essays and fiction by the late Kenyan icon. Its editor Achal Prabhala talks compiling it, a second posthumous book, and an uncompleted novel. “Much is made of what he did for other writers, but it was his own writing that did it for me,” he said.
Otosirieze
Binyavanga Wainaina by Allan Gichigi.

August 4, 2022

Troy Onyango on Lolwe & Literary Magazine Publishing in Africa

The platform, founded and edited by the Kenyan writer, is building a conversation between Africa and the Black diaspora. It is his second venture after the defunct Enkare Review.
Socrates Mbamalu
Troy Onyango by Jagero.

May 30, 2022

Khadija Abdalla Bajaber on Fantasy & the Character of Kenyan Writing

“I needed to write something that takes advantage of the rich nuances in my own culture,” said the Graywolf Press Africa Prize-winning author of The House of Rust.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber by TJ Benson.

February 10, 2022

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Wins $50,000 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature

The judges called the Kenyan author a “transformative figure in African Literature.”
Paula Willie-Okafor
Ngugi wa Thiong'o by Steve Zylius/UCI.

December 10, 2021

Troy Onyango’s Debut Story Collection Set for 2022

For What Are Butterflies without Their Wings, written over six years by the Lolwe editor and Caine Prize finalist, has 14 stories.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Troy Onyango.

October 7, 2021

Okwiri Oduor’s Debut Novel Things They Lost Explores Mother-Daughter Longing

The Caine Prize winner’s forthcoming book is “suffused with Kenyan folklore and myth.”
Paula Willie-Okafor
okwiri oduor - things they lost - Scribner slash Tristan Offit slash Jacket Art by Lisa Wright

March 31, 2021

Ngugi’s The Perfect Nine Is the First Book in an African Language to Make International Booker Shortlist

The revered Kenyan, who writes in Gikuyu, is also the prize’s first nominee as both author and translator of the same book.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Ngugi wa Thiong'o by Steve Zylius/UCI.

March 2, 2021

In The House of Rust, Khadija Abdalla Bajaber Spins a Mombasan Fairytale

“Everywhere else gets romanticised, what about Mombasa?” she said of her debut novel, forthcoming from Graywolf Press in October 2021.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber's The House of Rust.

January 18, 2021

Caine Prize Winner Makena Onjerika on Her Nairobi Writing Academy

The Kenyan writer tells us her motivations and approach to teaching writing.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Makena Onjerika.

June 13, 2023

Binyavanga Wainaina by Allan Gichigi.

Binyavanga Wainaina’s Great Scatter of Work (Exclusive)

How to Write About Africa gathers vivid, powerful essays and fiction by the late Kenyan icon. Its editor Achal Prabhala talks compiling it, a second posthumous book, and an uncompleted novel. “Much is made of what he did for other writers, but it was his own writing that did it for me,” he said.
Otosirieze

August 4, 2022

Troy Onyango by Jagero.

Troy Onyango on Lolwe & Literary Magazine Publishing in Africa

The platform, founded and edited by the Kenyan writer, is building a conversation between Africa and the Black diaspora. It is his second venture after the defunct Enkare Review.
Socrates Mbamalu

May 30, 2022

Khadija Abdalla Bajaber by TJ Benson.

Khadija Abdalla Bajaber on Fantasy & the Character of Kenyan Writing

“I needed to write something that takes advantage of the rich nuances in my own culture,” said the Graywolf Press Africa Prize-winning author of The House of Rust.
Paula Willie-Okafor

February 10, 2022

Ngugi wa Thiong'o by Steve Zylius/UCI.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Wins $50,000 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature

The judges called the Kenyan author a “transformative figure in African Literature.”
Paula Willie-Okafor

December 10, 2021

Troy Onyango.

Troy Onyango’s Debut Story Collection Set for 2022

For What Are Butterflies without Their Wings, written over six years by the Lolwe editor and Caine Prize finalist, has 14 stories.
Uzoma Ihejirika

October 7, 2021

okwiri oduor - things they lost - Scribner slash Tristan Offit slash Jacket Art by Lisa Wright

Okwiri Oduor’s Debut Novel Things They Lost Explores Mother-Daughter Longing

The Caine Prize winner’s forthcoming book is “suffused with Kenyan folklore and myth.”
Paula Willie-Okafor

March 31, 2021

Ngugi wa Thiong'o by Steve Zylius/UCI.

Ngugi’s The Perfect Nine Is the First Book in an African Language to Make International Booker Shortlist

The revered Kenyan, who writes in Gikuyu, is also the prize’s first nominee as both author and translator of the same book.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

March 2, 2021

Khadija Abdalla Bajaber's The House of Rust.

In The House of Rust, Khadija Abdalla Bajaber Spins a Mombasan Fairytale

“Everywhere else gets romanticised, what about Mombasa?” she said of her debut novel, forthcoming from Graywolf Press in October 2021.
Ernest Ogunyemi

January 18, 2021

Makena Onjerika.

Caine Prize Winner Makena Onjerika on Her Nairobi Writing Academy

The Kenyan writer tells us her motivations and approach to teaching writing.
Paula Willie-Okafor

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