Kenya’s Okwiri Oduor has won the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story entitled ‘My Father's Head’. She was announced the winner at a dinner ...
Photographer Mutua Matheka, well known for his awesome pictures of Nairobi, has today launched an online print market. Fans of his work can now buy print ph...
Wamathai Spoken Word took an unintended break after the September event last year. Since then, I have been working to bring it back but I encountered a few ch...
The writing space in Kenya has seen a bit of growth in recent years with the introduction of new writers . There has also been renewed interest by Kenyan re...
There has been a concerted push for local content by the Kenyan government, through the I.C.T. Board, for a couple of years. They have even offered grants to co...
The pen is mightier than the sword. That is all well and good in philosophy and we can rant about the social revolutions brought on by the mighty pen. However, ...
Hi Wamathai,
Just finished reading Given the right books at the right price, Kenyans actually read.
I feel that the most important question should be; are ENO...
The title of this memoir, written in 1980 and published posthumously in 2012, is quite appropriate as it chronicles the life of a man out to make a living and...
Street bookstore
“If you want to hide something from a Kenyan, put it in a book,” has been a favourite when it comes to lines used to mock Kenyans’ reading ...
Namatsi Lukoye, a Kenyan poet, designer and event organizer , produced a documentary about Spoken Word in Kenya. It features some Kenya’s top poets like Kevin ‘...
James Wamathai is a writer, performance poet, owner of a content and digital marketing startup (Wamathai Media), online publisher (Wamathai.com,Hapakenya.com), events manager, volunteer teacher and full time dreamer.
