Young Writers Movement

@CassavaRepublic @MukomaWaNgugi Happy birthday sir

#HappyBirthday to an important voice in #AfricanLiterature, Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ (@MukomaWaNgugi)🎉 Thank you for gracing our shelves and hearts with your body of work. #NairobiHeat #TheRiseoftheAfricanNovel #UnburyOurDeadWithSong

Happy new year 2022 @ChimamandaReal @MukomaWaNgugi @hillarywaka @Onjerika @TeeNgugi @WanjikuwaNgugi @NducuWaNgugi @NgugiWaThiongo_ and many more literary giants

To my fellow writers and scholars struggling through a draft, here are the Wailers rehearsing Rebel Music, Exodus etc. I love listening to this when in choppy waters. It's a reminder that nothing is created polished, and the shine is the sweat of struggle. youtube.com/watch?v=5RaOMQ…

@Onjerika @covid_kenya The Kenya we would like in all sectors

When things work out EASILY in this country, I am SHOCKED. Walked into Nairobi Hospital and explained my COVID certificate issue. 5 minutes later, sorted out. Haiya. Am I in the right country? @covid_kenya 😂😂😂

Many thanks to the editors @IseleMagazine for including my little, weird story in this issue. iselemagazine.com/another-grandc…

Digital Bedbugs. Mmmh? Sounds interesting right? Grab a copy of @Onjerika's book today. Reading sharpens the mind.

Nairobi Heat by @MukomaWaNgugi is a thriller. Everyone must read this. It should actually be turned into a movie

Today we present to you a thrilling collection of short stories of love, deception and victory written by one of Kenya's young authors Hillary Waka. Congratulations Hillary. Readers can link up with his Twitter handle @hillarywaka to get copies at 380/= @MukomaWaNgugi @Onjerika

We propose to also have our own literary calendar. Literary days to be incorporated in the calendar just like Christian and Muslim Days @MukomaWaNgugi @NducuWaNgugi @NgugiWaThiongo_ @Onjerika

And the winner is...@avatar_reso 👏👏👏 #DinaaneDebutFiction Awards @ExclusiveBooks Rosebank @RosebankMall with @JacanaMedia and @Porcupine_Wines

Currently @JIAS_UJ for the launch of Dr. @SiphiwoMahala’s #RedAppleDreams & Other Stories - A short story collection which features stories by Zukiswa Wanner, Can Themba, James Matthews & Njabulo S. Ndebele. @BTC_BC18 will be facilitating the discussion. #BookLaunch

Advance copies of Ogadinma, the UK debut novel by @MsOlisakwe, have arrived!💥 A modern feminist classic in the making, Ogadinma is the stirring tale of trusting teenager Ogadinma as she battles against Nigeria’s societal expectations in the 1980s. DM for a review copy. 💄

Arrived today from Jacana Literary Foundation, my contibutor copy of this anthology in which I have two poems. #poetry

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

Dear African reading & writing community, 21 Feb is World Mother Tongue Day. We want to dedicate all of 2020 getting book titles & excerpts, quotes, audio, stories etc. from YOU in your mother tongue. All ages & genres welcome. Please help support us to #ReadWriteSpeakAfrican.

We celebrate our Laureate, Mabel Segun, as she becomes a nonagenarian today. Mabel Segun was one of the joint winners of the prestigious The Nigeria Prize for Literature in 2007. Her footprints are forever etched in the history of Literature in Nigeria. Happy Birthday Mama.

New additions to thy collection 💃 I already went through @SueNyathi's part. I'm such a fan of her writing I can't even hide it 😍😅 #BlackTax

#Booklaunch #RedAppleDreamsAndOtherStories #JohannesburgInstituteForAdvancedStudy Thur 20 Feb 2020. 5pm. 1 Tolip Street Westdene Jhb. Please rsvp at jiasinfo@uj.ac.za. @SiphiwoMahala will be in conversation with @BTC_BC18. See you there. 💖📖

Happy to say that the book launch will be in Nairobi on April 3rd - details coming soon @jamesmurua.

The West African edition of The Rise of the African Novel coming in April. One of the joys of being a writer-scholar is I get to study my fellow writers e.g. NoViolet, @VascoDaGappah, @aminattaforna, Adichie, Binj etc. Thanks @CassavaRepublic. Cover inspired by Achebe's beret &👓