Essays, reviews, author profiles and serialised fiction about books published in Africa today.
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Cut off from supply lines, the fighters chewed bitter wild roots that left their mouths numb. They drank from cold streams thick with silt. Each night, their stomachs…
Featured
Theatre is like juggling multiple balls at once. You’re in character, but you’re also aware of the audience, your scene partners, and the technical aspects of the show…
Book Serialisation
In Thegio Location of Nyeri, where the resistance burned hottest, Senior Chief Waithaje met a brutal death beneath a Mukuyu tree—fifty men against one, his loyalty to…
Podcasts
Can a story belong to a place if its writer comes from somewhere else? In this episode, Virginia Clay joins us to discuss Warrior Boy, identity, cultural representation…
The artists talked about issues facing Kenya, from the economy, to the taxes, to the capitation funds, the debts, the abductions, and the violence.
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That evening, when he returned, their home felt different—both warmer and heavier. And in the quiet of that small room, as the winds stirred the grass outside and the…
Events
The Asian Literary Festival is coming to Nairobi. We are proud to announce the 1st edition of The Asian Literary Festival, Nairobi — gathering writers, thinkers, and…
Author Profiles
We also need more emotionally mature romance, stories that do not rush to resolution, or reduce love to chemistry alone. Love can be tender and still be complicated. It…
Book Serialisation
Kavuki earned a new name—Queen of the Village; this was because they felt she had become the model of the village. She was consulted on various issues, but the…
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Shiko’s passion for books began in childhood. As a child, she would sometimes fake being unwell at school just so she could sit in the secretary’s office and read the…
Book Serialisation
Wacheera remembered the way her grandmother’s voice had dropped into something softer, heavier. “When they finally came, they were few. We welcomed them with open hands…
He waited until it was dark. His mind was full of questions: about his wife and children, about his friends, about his parents and about everything. However, everything…