The 2017 Nyanza Literary Festival prizes are open for submissions. The festival’s inaugural 2016 prizes were won by Troy Onyango, for prose, and Redscar K’Oyuga Macodindo, for poetry. Macondindo’s win was eventually rescinded following his exposure as a serial plagiarist. The Nyanza Literary Festival, which aims to “elevate engagement in the arts in Nyanza Province, Kenya” […]
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Jalada Announces Mobile Literary and Arts Festival
After more than a year of behind-the-scenes planning, Jalada Africa has announced a mega-step: a mobile literary festival covering five countries in East Africa. Slated for March 3-31 of 2017, the festival is a hybrid between a traditional place-based festival and a bus tour and will cover twelve towns: Nairobi, Nakuru, Kisumu and Mombasa in Kenya; Mwanza, […]
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