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World Book Café: Nairobi
The new generation of Kenyan writers making waves in East Africa.
Despite its status as a regional hub for East Africa and as a dynamic young city and melting pot, the thriving literary scene in Nairobi is largely sustained by a âdo it yourselfâ work ethic.
Lawrence Pollard meets a panel of writers-with-a-hyphen: a teacher, a banker, a podcaster and a journalist â all of whom have found success against the odds in Kenya, a country whose publishing industry has been slow to adapt to modern tastes. Lawrenceâs panel includes writer, teacher and winner of the 2018 Caine Prize Makena Onjerika; novelist and journalist Peter Kimani; podcaster Beverley Ochieng; and author and banker Kinyanjui Kombani.
Producer: Simon Richardson
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Sun 30 Jun 2019
11:06GMT
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