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Theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair reviews two plays that use technological platforms to connect the audience with the performer and push showgoers to move from passive voyeur to participant.

Kenyan theatre show, Too Early For Birds is back with five shows slated to take place in November at the Jain Bhavan Auditorium in Loresho.

This groundbreaking theatrical experience will feature five Nairobi based artists whose works question the liminal space between ancestry and civilization, the real and surreal, the inner being and our external existence.

Kenyan writers in the publishing industry have struggled to make a living from their work coz of industry practices that don't favour them

The six included Sitawa Namwalie, Mumbi Kaigwa, Aleya Kassam, Anne Moraa, Laura Ekumbo, and Mercy Mutisya.

Apr 22, 2021 YouTube has launched its first YouTube Africa Reading Challenge, an online reading marathon featuring authors, influencers and key opinion leaders across Africa. In a bid to help popularise the work of African authors across the continent, the personalities will read extracts from The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, a novel by the African-born Nigerian poet Lola Shoneyin. The book is an entertaining, perceptive and enlightening portrayal of polygamy in modern-day Nigeria. It r...

x According to the video platform, part of the aim of the initiative is to also help to popularise the work of African authors across the continent. The personalities will read extracts from The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, a novel by the African-born Nigerian poet Lola Shoneyi. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives is an entertaining, perceptive and enlightening portrayal of polygamy in modern-day Nigeria. It reveals the struggles, rivalries, intri...

YouTube reading challenge to promote African authors Summary Google-owned YouTube has launched an online reading marathon dubbed the Africa Reading Challenge as a way of backing African writers. The online video platform will bring on about 54 readers drawn from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa where each county will have 18 representatives to read during the challenge, which is also aimed at promoting the reading culture in Africa. Seven renowned Kenyan artists are part of 18 readers that will ...