STORYMOJA

It was 11.00 am on Thursday 15th September and there was already excitement at the US Embassy Tent. A group of writers and an illustrator were meeting a writer and an illustrator rolled in one.

Location: Text Book Centre, Nakumatt Junction, Nairobi
Time: Saturday, 23 July 2011 11:00am to 1:00pm

On 16th June 2011, courtesy of Storymoja Publishers and the British Council, approximately 84,300 Kenyans set the national record for “Most people reading out loud from the same text in different locations on the same day.”

The event brought together two generations of litterateurs, with Caine Prize winner Binyavanga Wainaina in conversation with his aunt Rebeka Njau, veteran Kenyan playwright and novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o in conversation with his son Mukoma wa Ngugi, author of the detective novel Nairobi Heat.

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I arrived at 1145hrs just in time to catch the British High Commissioner, Rob Macaire leading a discussion on Muslim in Kenya and Muslim in the UK.

“Africa has shut up for far too long and we to be stirred from our slumber and shaken from our complacency. If the internet be the venue for this awakening then so be it.”