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Kenyan writer Idza Luhumyo has won the 2022 AKO Caine prize for African writing. Congratulations.
19/07/2022

Kenyan writer Idza Luhumyo has won the 2022 AKO Caine prize for African writing. Congratulations.

05/12/2021

Join us next Thursday 9th Nov. 1pm NRB | 5pm NY for the final feature of the Series this year!

We shall be looking into which encourages the use of " " to Succeed in Life and Work!

For more and registration visit: http://tinyurl.com/y8uucd4y

African Students Association, Columbia University African Book Hub KE Text Book Centre Columbia Business School Columbia University in the City of New York Columbia College Columbia University School of General Studies Columbia ISSO Stanford Graduate School of Business Stanford University

We're delighted to be one of the organizations selected by Moleskine Foundation as one of its !
16/09/2021

We're delighted to be one of the organizations selected by Moleskine Foundation as one of its !

11/08/2021

YVONNE ADHIAMBO OWUOR IS DAAD BERLIN ARTIST-IN-RESIDENT 2021!
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor stepped into the in one fell swoop in 2003 when she won the The Caine Prize for African Writing. Since then, she has made a contribution to increasing the of literary culture on a global scale. Her writing, in both fictional and non-fictional areas, impresses her readers with a haunting and multi-layered depiction of life in Africa.
Owuor is one of the leading voices in , which is not least due to a profound of on which her work is based. She knows how to use the lyrical power of storytelling through poetic language that not only reflects reality, but also looks into the deep, dark undercurrents of violence in and .
Contrary to an African that tries to question the of through , Owuor understands as a that is able to link colliding realities in such a way that African Life comes to light in all its .
Her work pushes and breaks in yet other ways. The Dragonfly Sea testifies that Owuor is part of a new of African who are about to take the by storm. Contrary to a tradition that has always been dominated by men, women authors like Owuor rewrite Africa's past and reshape the present - a present in which they focus on the lives of women. The Dragonfly Sea is a that would have been in a previous literary .
Please join us at DAAD Nairobi to congratulate Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor for this amazing ! We are proud of you!
Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD

11/08/2021

African artifacts shown in museums worldwide are often not borrowed, but stolen -- and TED Fellow Jim Chuchu is on a mission to get them back. Learn the sordid history behind how many of the collections in the West came to be, Chuchu's extensive work tracking and restoring Kenya's cultural heritage....

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