Abdulrahman “Abu Amirah” Ndegwa, a Mombasa-based writer, publisher and founding editor of Hekaya Arts Initiative, an online platform that publishes stories from The Swahili Coast, was the inaugural winner of the AWT’s 2018 Seed Fund for Emerging Publishers worth EURO 4,200. The aim of the fund is to facilitate the […]
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This panel discussion was moderated by Bethlehem Negash, a writer based in Ethiopia, itself a zone of silence because of language barriers. Bethlehem spoke to Corneli van den Berg; NN Dzenchuo and Abu Amirah. Corneli coordinates an annual literature festival- Vrystaat Arts Festival, held in Bloemfontein, South Africa, concurrently with the […]
The first installment of the Swahili Literary Festival is set to happen from March 01st to 03rd 2019 at The SwahiliPot Hub in Mombasa County. This year’s theme is CELEBRATING ACHIEVEMENT, informed by the need to celebrate and honor prominent individuals from the Swahili Coast who have passed on, leaving […]