STORYMOJA

Joanne is 15 years old. She is a Form 2 student at Precious Blood Secondary School. She recently went to Hay-on-Wye, in the UK, to attend the Guradian Hay Festival. The trip was as a result of winning The Storymoja Hay Festival Storytelling Competition with her story about conforming to technology.
When I asked her about [...]

6th June 2010
Beautiful Sunday morning as usual the sun is up as early. Due to the previous late night I really did not want to get up immediately… maybe a few more winks? Maybe not…I definitely wanted to see more of the Festival.
Actually most of the festival was over since it was the last day [...]

5th June 2010
After the 8hr flight I was finally in the United Kingdom, at Heathrow Airport. It was a little bit hard to believe considering I’d been asleep most of the flight. I thought maybe I was getting delirious.
The landing of the plane made my arrival more factual than imaginary. I also had to reset [...]

4th of June 2010
After a hectic day of going up and down searching for what I may need during the trip, I had finally finished and it was time to go to the airport. My mother looked more nervous than I felt ; she kept on urging me to hurry up! I understood, she did [...]

The story involves a matatu driver, Rasta Driver (Joshua Ogutu Moraya), who sees an opportunity to establish a thriving transportation business underwater. And so he plunges his matatu….

“Under the sea a matatu can be free – to be a money-making machine,” sings Rasta Driver in StoryHippo’s first children’s musical, The Matatu from Watamu that Drove into the Sea.

The musical will be staged at the Sarakasi Dome on the weekend of the Friday14th, Saturday 15th May 2010, at 1.30pm and 5.30pm, and again on Sunday 16th May 2010, at 1.30pm and 5.30pm. Tickets 400/- or 300/- if you buy 3 or more in advance.

See it at USIU Auditorium, 2nd March 2010, 6pm.

Special Student Price: 500/=

Tickets Call 0724077524, 0729298157

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Cut-off-my-tongue rants, sweats and breaks into song and dance as it explores the truth that shape us Africans; our beliefs, the way we behave and why.Woven with music and dance, Sitawa Namwalie’s…