A story of an unlikely friendship, a chronicle of the final years of the late Kenyan writer Binyavanga’s life, from the perspective of a former student...
Ali Zaidi and I parachuted into Kenya when it was easier to form relationships and friendships based on shared interests and common humanity. We arrived as...
Ali Zaidi was that éminence grise that all newspapers must have – that one in-house intellectual and grammarian commanding a battery of section editors. He was...
The literary world has lost yet another icon. Another healer of wounds is no longer with us. But Morrison’s language and words will always comfort us,...
Ken Okoth was a visionary and inspirational leader whose death has left a nation in mourning and reflection.
That time. That place. We started something together. With him at its heart. With his own big and encompassing heart - he dragged us all in,...
Literary scholars have a way of frowning upon other literary media not in their stable. Poets often assume theirs is the best medium. Those who study...
Through writing, he is getting a second chance at life. Self-motivation. Self-education. This resonates loudly with many of us who have been let down by the...
There is no doubt that Binyavanga Wainaina forever changed the literary landscape in Kenya, opening it up to a new generation of Kenyans who are no...
The Kenya I grew up in felt isolated from the rest of the continent and the world. Kenyan writers were dissidents who lived abroad. Art was...
