Alikuweko siku za Pitman🤭😂

I would vote for you Nelson Havi Ndung’u, again, you contested for any position in the society….

Unsolicited advice to progressives of Tanzania: if don’t finish the job now, she’ll emerge more vicious, more reptilian, more cynical. She has tasted power and blood. She won’t go without a hell of a fight. Dislodge her now by popular uprising, or forget it.

At Nobel in Africa Symposium, STIAS, Stellenbosch University, author Jamal Mahjoub speaks about literature, history and society. #NobelinAfrica25

Patina Gappah, writer of Out of Darkness, Shining Light, speaking at the Nobel in Africa Symposium…. “It’s good to meet in Africa, we always meet in Europe.” #NobelinAfrica2025

Njabulo Ndebele, at Nobel in Africa Symposium, reflects on his life as a writer/critic/varsity administrator: ‘being an artist allows you to think with your heart and feel with your thoughts.’ #NobelinAfrica2025

Day 2 of the Nobel in Africa Symposium, we remember the work and person of Zoe Wicomb, who sadly departed recently. She was meant to speak at the symposium. Our thoughts are with her loved ones…

Prof Lynda Spencer, Rhodes University, speaks about publishing and circulation of African literature, at the #NobelinAfrica2025 Symposium, Stellenbosch University…

Hats off for Lola Shoneyin, speaking at the Nobel in Africa Symposium in Stellenbosch University on Day 2 of the Symposium

Nobel in Africa Symposium ‘25 has parallels with Paris ‘56 and Makerere ‘62. Last evening, among other invite-only guests, I listened to two of the finest African writers, JM Coetzee and Abdulrazak Gurnah, moderated by Prof Stefan Helgesson. #NobelinAfrica2025

Nobel in Africa Symposium ‘25 has parallels with Paris ‘56 and Makerere ‘62. Last evening, among other invite-only guests, I listened to two of the finest African writers, JM Coetzee and Abdulrazak Gurnah, moderated by Prof Stefan Helgesson. #NobelinAfrica2025

Day 4 of the Nobel Symposium, Jackie Kosgei speaks on her research on the biography of the Indian Ocean…creating, ordering, interpreting….

Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah in conversation with editor of Eastern African Literary & Cultural Studies on the last day of the Nobel in Africa Symposium, Stellenbosch Institute dor Advanced Studies… #NobelinAfrica2025

When they write the history of African literature, there will be a chapter on 3-7 Nov. 2025. This week, 50 writers & critics gathered for the #NobelinAfrica2025 STIAS. This was the first time that the Nobel Symposium is held outside of Scandinavia. stias.ac.za/events/nobel-s…

In a rare ocassion, Africa's best writers & Africa's best scholars converged STIAS in Stellenbosch for the Nobel in Africa Symposium, headlined by Nobel Laureates Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021) & J.M. Coetzee (2003), who gave the Stellenbosch University Chancellor's Public Lecture

Truly honoured to be part of this family that thinks with the heart and feels with the mind. It was an absolute honour to be part of the Nobel in Africa Symposium, the first ever Nobel Symposium outside of Scandinavia. History is made!!!

Although, Nelson Havi Ndung’u , most of the senior advocates are as crooked as the junior ones are clueless… State honchos and judiciary functionaries prefer compromising your contemporaries, not youthful advocates. The latter have zero validational value for state chicanery…

Interesting observation, Dr. Kenneth Ombongi, OGW