Thursday 28th September 6.00 – 8.30pm Literary Crossroads with Abubakar Adan Ibrahim, author of award winning Season of Crimson Blossoms in conversation with Abdul Adan & Anja Bengelstorff FREE Admission | Goethe Institut Auditorium, Nairobi CBD
Wednesday 27th to Sunday 1st October 2017 Storymoja Festival | Courtyard | Nairobi National Museum This exhibition highlights stories of courageous individuals who paid a heavy price for Kenya to be where it is today. This is an exhibition about sacrifice and service beyond self. It is a commemoration of the power of ideas, and [read more…]
Thursday 28th September 2017 Rift Valley Institute, BIEA Compound, Laikipia Road, Kileleshwa On the 50th Anniversary of the Biafran Civil War, Chuma Nwokolo, a child survivor of the Asaba Massacre, maps an African future through a political minefield of Restructural options. Moderated by James Murua
Because we love you and want to spend loads of time with you at the Storymoja Festival, here’s an amazing ticket deal for you! If you buy a premium event ticket over KES 1000, you can use it to gain entry to day events at festival. BUT you have to show the premium ticket at entry. [read more…]
We have been working hard to get together the over 100 artists, authors, thinkers, entertainers and leaders from our own homeland and from across the globe to inspire, educate, entertain and delight all of you new and old Storymoja Festival goers!
Photography Master Class 2017 Public Event: Storytelling through Photography Time: 15:00 -16:30 Venue: Goethe-Institut Nairobi Cost: Free The Goethe-Institut Johannesburg with Simon Njami – writer and independent curator, initiated the prestigious Photographers’ Master Class in 2008, as a forum for African photographers to meet with museum directors and independent curators to critically engage with their [read more…]
By any normal standards I am your next door twenty-something-year-old. My worst challenges range from chameleons to being broke, all the way to not having control over my emotions and moods. When my pockets are full, I am either looking at every green plant around me imagining ugly chameleons with horns on them or struggling [read more…]
Growing up, I thought, writing should take just one style and any story that did not begin with once upon a time or years ago or something close to that tasted like hay on my tongue. And for some many years, I nurtured this ill notion. Up until I met writings by Ian Arunga. In [read more…]
“Do you get orgasms?” “What?” “You heard what I said. Well, have you?” It was the fourth time my new boyfriend and I had become intimate and in each of those times I did not orgasm. The truth is I have never experienced one! (Cue shock, surprise, sympathy☺). Do I want to get one? Of [read more…]
You’ve got to envy the life of a man who starts out as a missionary school teacher Out of Africa, gets to be High Commissioner to a Constant Gardener and still manages to get himself caught up in A Hijacking, as captain of a Danish ship taken by Somali pirates. That’s about a tenth of [read more…]
