PRIME 'I thought having glazed eyes made me a macho woman' says gospel artiste who abused drugs and alcohol Mimah Shafie struggled with a substance abuse problem for six years.
PRIME Austin Bukenya: Dr Masakhwe’s stormy sailing a unique challenge to us Dr Masakhwe's autobiography narrates his adventurous and arduous journey from abject poverty to the top of academic echelons.
Sailing in Storms: My Story as a person living with disability A story of overcoming incredible obstacles placed in the way of a person by the society just because he is physically disabled.
PRIME Vital leadership lessons from trail-blazing prisons reformist Leadership Through the Eyes of a Prisons Officer is a veritable manual on management and leadership.
Art installation explores concepts of beauty Wambui Kamiru Collymore calls into question both the concept of beauty and its practice by African women.
Art as a way of moving up in the world He’s a self-confessed former pickpocket and ex-con who only fell into crime when the going got rough, and his poverty led to his believing he had no other choice but crime.
PRIME This is the story of the University of Nairobi A look at the book 'Fountain of Knowledge: A History of the University of Nairobi'.
PRIME Leonard Mambo: My scary clash with coup plotters Veteran broadcaster captures his harrowing experience of failed coup of 1982 in an autobiography titled Je, huu ni Uungwana?
PRIME Austin Bukenya: ‘King’ John Sibi-Okumu wields his sceptre with ‘Collected Plays’ The central theme of Sibi-Okumu’s Collected Plays is who we are, where we are and where we are going.
Flight attendant: My 39 years working for Kenya Airways Retired flight attendant, packs a riveting account of his life working for Kenya Airways for 39 years.
Publishers should allow young achievers to pen their memoirs Stories abound of authors who opted for mainstream publishing and had to endure long waits to have their books roll off the press.
Austin Bukenya: About being mixed race, and what Khaminwa told Senghor The cancer of racism continues to rage unabated, to the detriment of so-called “people of colour” everywhere, and the whole of decent humanity.
Matu Wamae: How we defeated Kanu in 2002 Veteran politician’s memoirs detail how Raila Odinga’s famous ‘Kibaki Tosha’ helped turn the tide against Daniel arap Moi.
New KICD rules leave book publishers, authors in a bind Selection rules required publishers to submit typed manuscripts without the names of the author.
PRIME Tom Mboya: The man Kenya can never forget Tom Mboya will always remain as that leader who provokes us to always think of what could have been.
PRIME For politicians looking for survival, read Bibi biography Netanyahu may no longer be calling shots in Tel Aviv right now but his legacy will shadow Israel for some time to come.
PRIME Has Ngugi wa Thiong’o turned his back on Kiswahili? Literature don’s ideology on African languages seems to give more favour to Gikuyu than Swahili.
Book Club: Sunday Brunch Book Club I started a book club in March 2019. It was from a place of “I have read so much and it would be wonderful if I could connect with others who have read similar books and together draw lessons and...
A look at Stanley Mwenda’s ‘Chronicles of a Village Surgeon’ The book offers insight into life in village with themes like alternative medicine and belief in witchcraft
Why literary texts are still vital in the Kenyan education system Creative writing should be offered as a subject to complement literature if we are to produce serious writers.
Kiswahili poet, writer Haji Gora takes his final bow The poet, who was born in 1933 on Tumbatu island in the Zanzibari archipelago, died last week aged 88.
PRIME Tough life for budding authors selling their own books Self-published authors resort to creative means of distributing their works in order to penetrate the market.
PRIME Why literature should be taken more seriously Downgrading literature means we will end up with graduates who can barely communicate in English.
Writers group fulfills big dream of own bookshop Writers Guild Bookshop stock books exclusively by Kenyan and African writers.
PRIME When Dad dies: Chimamanda grapples with grief in new book In the elegy to her father James Nwoye Adichie, Nigerian writer delves into sorrow and memory.
PRIME Daniel Gachukia’s story of belonging to two cultures Gachukia’s story of being Kikuyu and Kamba at the same time is a story of the prospects of a postcolonial Kenya.
Bukenya: Affirmative action - Makerere women grab majority shares Makerere’s motto is “We build for the future”. That future will be glorious if gender equity is part of it.
Art movement to give Nairobi a facelift through all murals Artists to be given a chance to showcase their talent and promote safety and beauty in the city.
PRIME Sh20,000 for this book? No problem, I’ll buy it A look at Kenyans who do not mind buying that very expensive book.
Why Kiraitu has no apologies to make and no songs to fake Being a poet, writer and accomplished lawyer, the Governor of Meru, is more nimble with words and imagery than a monkey in a forest.
Prophetic poetry and majestic guns of the Chadian liberators President Idriss Deby, who had just won a sixth term in a row, goes and gets himself killed in a battle with rebels seeking to overthrow him.
Untold stories of Goan Africans in making of Kenyan nation ‘Twilight of the Exiles’ deepens our understanding of how ravages of nationalism, misrule and corruption affected a minority community.
Our obsession with exam results doesn’t always tally with reality One needs more than just good grades or high IQ to be successful in life.
Austin Bukenya: Why I’m sharing my Christmas tender moments and wonders In the case of 2020, one may justifiably wonder whether there is anything worth celebrating in it.
By the Book: Jane Ngunjiri I’m currently reading Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and working on my second book.
Are local publishers on their last chapter? With schools closed due to Covid-19, firms are weighing options as stacks of books gather dust in warehouses.
Book sales soar as French lockdown eases Even so, overall, sales were 60 percent down compared the corresponding period in 2019.
By the Book: Jacob Aliet Jacob Aliet is the author of Shoreline Origins, Magnolia Flower, First Encounters, The Photographer, and Levant Church which is his latest work of fiction.
Book Review: Who Will Catch Us as We Fall Whatever the book lacks in proper Kiswahili phrases, it makes up for in the vivid descriptions of the city.
By the Book: Yidana Waterz Waterz Yidana is a 33-year-old award winning Ghanaian playwright, poet and essayist.
