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Billy Kahora, editor of Kwani? and creative writing lecturer at the University of Bristol, will have his short story collection launched at Huza Press and Goethe-Institut’s KigaliLit event on 14 June. Published by Huza Press, The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories comes with blurbs by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Muthoni Garland, and Namwali Serpell, who calls it “a wondrous collection” exploring “a millenial Kenya we’ve never seen in fiction before.”
Among the book’s eleven stories, set across Kenya, South Africa, and the US, is “The Gorilla’s Apprentice,” a finalist for the 2014 Caine Prize. An earlier story of his, “Urban Zoning,” was also a finalist for the prize in 2012.
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Today we are thrilled to announce of our next KigaliLit event! Huza Press and @GoetheKigali are hosting Kenyan writer and editor Billy Kahora! Yay!😃💃#KigaliLit #literature #africanbooks2019 #AfricanBooks #Kigali #my250 #Kenyanaauthors #BillyKahora #KigaliNights #Rwanda pic.twitter.com/rpo4zbinTN— Huza Press (@HuzaPress) June 7, 2019
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Billy Kahora will read from and launch his new short story collection The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories, which is Huza Press’s newest publication!! 🍾 The collection will also be launched by Huza Press in Nairobi in July. #KigaliLit #BookLaunch #my250 #BillyKahora pic.twitter.com/cS7hLO4tRa— Huza Press (@HuzaPress) June 7, 2019
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Join us for the evening of literature in Kigali. It’s next Friday, 14th June from 6pm at @InnoVille, the rooftop space of @KigaliLibrary.#AfricanBooks #KigaliLit #my250 #Kenyanaauthors #BillyKahora #Books #KigaliNights #Kenya #Nairobi #KenyanWriters #Shortstorycollection pic.twitter.com/drUJUPn7aE— Huza Press (@HuzaPress) June 7, 2019
Billy Kahora’s fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in Chimurenga, McSweeney’s, Granta Online, Internazionale, Vanity Fair and Kwani?. He has written a non-fiction novella titled The True Story Of David Munyakei. He wrote the screenplay for Soul Boy and co-wrote Nairobi Half Life which won the Kalasha awards. As Managing Editor of Kwani Trust he edited 7 issues of the Kwani journal and other Kwani publications including Nairobi 24 and Kenya Burning. He is also a Contributing Editor with the Chimurenga Chronic. He has been Kwani Litfest Curator since 2008.
Here are details.
Date: Friday, 14 June 2019
Venue: Innovation Village, Kigali, Rwanda
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Congratulations to Billy Kahora.
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