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NEW YEAR: 2022
For whatever reason, Maendeleo Chap Chap hadn’t materialized. My friend and fellow EPL football fanatic, Mwingi West MP Charles Ngana Ngusya (CNN), assured me that if I…
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Essays, reviews, author profiles and serialised fiction about books published in Africa today.
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Podcasts
Vivian Kabono on After 4:30 and why freedom still feels unfinished for so many women.
In this episode, Kenya Theatre Awards nominee Vivian Kabono joins us to discuss her role as Lili in After 4:30, the powerful stage adaptation of David Maillu’s 1974…
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Nobody flees from trouble better than a Kenyan
It is mind-boggling that hundreds of years after fleeing hostile environments in other parts of Africa, we still flee from droughts, floods and hunger instead of…
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Betty Kilonzo: ‘I want readers to see the mess, the mistakes, the urgency’
In this conversation with Books in Africa host Tracy Ochieng, Kilonzo speaks candidly about beginning as a 12-year-old memoirist, learning the business of publishing…
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Playing Power: Martin Kigondu on After 4.30, Masculinity, and the Cost of Staying in Theatre
In this episode, Kenya Theatre Awards nominee Martin Kigondu discusses his leading role as Nikolas Mukoko in After 4.30, the acclaimed stage adaptation of David Maillu’s…
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How to be an MCA In Kenya
Here is something you need to know: blessings are served in single shots, troubles come in doubles, and tragedy is a straight-up triple tot. I was not surprised at all…
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The Girl Who Fought Unseen Men
One day she woke up in the middle of the night and sat alone under the flickering lights of a July moon. She didn’t want anyone around her. Ma brought her water first…
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"I Wrote My First Autobiography at 12 Years Old" In Conversation with Betty Kilonzo
In this episode of the Books in Africa podcast, Tracy Ochieng is joined by Betty Kilonzo, the author of Househelp Manual, a practical guide on domestic work. The…
Book Reviews
Ben, you don’t have to fight to be a Maa warrior
Central to this ethical inquiry is Ben’s father, a Maasai warrior, who died protecting a film crew during a lion attack. Clay avoids mythologising him. His bravery is…
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Scratch the Death Cat
When she first saw Scratch, she didn’t have a name. She was just a mystery cat that had eyes burning with fury or sometimes swollen with sadness. She had coal-black fur…
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TikTok, Trumpets and Deception: Unmasking Africa’s doomsday, ‘mighty’ prophets
This is not unique to Ruto. Across the political divide, figures such as Babu Owino regularly quote scripture, invoke divine justice and frame political struggle in…
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Another Church
Happy are those who are afflicted here on earth for they will find comfort in heaven. You smile despite the fact that you are always in the line of fire, casting out…