🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

The incredible Njeri Gitungo_Ziggie, a powerhouse in Kenya’s creative scene and a co-founder of the women-focused event Strictly Silk, will be spinning at this year’s A Night at the Library. We can’t wait to get our groove on!

🇰🇪's Book Bunk initiative is restoring, reviving & engaging people with public libraries. Almost 40,000 people have benefited from their programs incl. the 🇦🇺-supported Music Bunk program. Our High Commissioner attended their annual “A Night at the Library” event in Nairobi.

Virtual Art Auction Alert! Nine exceptional pieces from our gala collection are now available to art lovers everywhere! Own stunning works by celebrated Kenyan artists while championing Nairobi's public libraries. Join our virtual auction on Thur, 21st Nov, 6-7:30pm via WhatsApp

Nairobi Litfest returns for its 4th edition co-presented by Hay Festival & Book Bunk 🗓26th – 29th June 2025 🎯Theme: Exploring Alternative Knowledge Systems Curated by #rutomustgo #rejectfinancebill2025 More on this: mailchi.mp/bookbunk.org/n… #NairobiLitfest #HayFestival #NBOLibraries

A Day Just for Children at #NairobiLitfest features: 📚 Storytelling 🎬 Film screening 👩🏽‍💻 Masterclass 📖 Interaction with children’s authors Plus, the Children’s Corner is back! A fun zone for kids while adults enjoy their programming during the main festival days. #HayFestival

NBOLitfest celebrates the boundless potential of knowledge in public spaces. This year’s theme — Exploring Alternative Knowledge Systems — will spark reflection, radical imagination & action in a world hungry for new ways of thinking. #NairobiLitfest #HayFestival #BookBunk

NBO LITFEST 2025. This year’s NBO LitFest will center on the theme Exploring Alternative Knowledge Systems, inviting bold conversations that challenge traditional thinking and tackle global issues like inequality and the climate crisis. PHOTO: NBO Litfest

#NBOLitfest is about community🫂 and connection❤️ #NairobiLitfest #BookBunk #Community #AlternativeKnowledge #LiteratureFestival

Creative expression & artistic immersion at #NBOLitfest🎨🧡

It's NBO Litfest month!!!! 🥳🥳

#NBOLitfest Masterclass: Sound and Motion Join award-winning writer Ayanna Lloyd Banwo for a creative writing session on how to infuse your work with specificity drawn from lived experience, interwoven with research and imagination. 📌 Apply: bit.ly/4jAs8W5. Limited slots.

#NBOLitfest Masterclass: Life as a Poem Learn to re-language personal experience + harness joy, pain & world-weariness into poetry — with poet & storyteller Ngwatilo. Apply by June 15th: bit.ly/4jwvIR6 #NBOLitfest #masterclass #HayFestival #poetry

#NBOLitfest Masterclass: Punk Publishing Cut, paste, collage, and create in this hands-on zine-making class with artist Tizzita Teffera. Learn the punk roots of zines and make your own — poetic, personal, political, or just plain weird. Apply: form.typeform.com/to/gtEynPy7 #zinemaking

#NBOLitfest Masterclass: The Craft of Photojournalism Learn the art of visual storytelling with AFP Chief Photographer Luis Tato . Explore how photojournalists shape insight from sight and get behind-the-scenes access to life on assignment. Apply: form.typeform.com/to/NJ8Tqn2J?ty…

#NBOLitfest Masterclass: On the Mic Learn how to craft a lasting, authentic podcast voice with 2024 Independent Podcast of the Year winners It’s a Continent Podcast podcast. Perfect for podcasters and storytellers aiming to stay fresh and engage audiences. Apply: bit.ly/4kShknt

#NBOLitfest Masterclass: Revolutionary Papers How do we teach radical African & Black anti-colonial histories — and keep them from being diluted? Join Koni Benson & Wairimu Gathimba talk on digital tools + archives for teaching liberation struggles. Apply:bit.ly/4kHyyEn

Join Gil Ndi-Shang & Mugambi Nthiga on Sat. 28th June at 2:30PM for a compelling conversation on how the arts archive our histories & reflect the politics that shape them. Moderated by Kui Kabala Supported by the Ford Foundation Register: bit.ly/3ZTT5NC #NBOLitfest

How do we channel ancestral knowledge into contemporary storytelling? Join Poet Momtaza Mehri and historian-writer Dr. Panashe Chigumadzi explore how deep research can be reimagined through poetry and prose. Register: bit.ly/400INv7

Besides our own Africa Is a Country Festival events in Nairobi at the end of June, we will also be participating in the NBO Litfest with panels throughout the weekend, and a masterclass with Ukombozi Library and Revolutionary Papers on Fri. Sign up to participate at nairobilitfest.com

What’s the cost of being misrepresented? Dipo Faloyin joins Sani Ladan in conversation on image-making, identity, and the politics of perception on 28th June at 12:00pm at the Eastlands Library Moderated by Please send job links (see pinned tweet) 🌎 Thx!, Supported by Acción Cultural AC/E link: bit.ly/43NLdQ9