At WAPI this month, Poetry Workshop with Neema Ngwatilo – 20th Sept
Poetry Workshop: Craft in Writing and Performance The poet’s first relationship is with the page; it is where the idea that birthed […]
Polish – Danish Acclaimed Jazz Group for a Live Concert at the Elephant 20th March
Tomasz Licak/Radek Wośko Quartet featuring Carl Winther” Live in concert this Friday at The Elephant. “Tomasz Licak/Radek Wośko Quartet featuring Carl Winther” […]
The Nairobi Hip Hop Rapsody is reaching for the stars
A poster of the first Rapsody event Only Nairobi’s true Hip Hop heads know that Nairobi’s Hip Hop Rapsody has been around […]
Wangechi redefining Kenyan Hip Hop
Kenyan Female Rapper Wangechi In the 90s, female MCs such as Queen Penn, Da Brat, EVE, MC Lyte, Lil Kim and Missy […]
A Candid talk on Entrepreneurship & Money Matters with the Kenyan Creative and Performing Artists
The POWO April 2012 panel made up of ;(from the left) Dann Mwangi, Margaretta, John Sibi Okumu, Buddha Blaze and Wanjeri Saturday […]
ALBUM REVIEW: MAIA VON LEKOW
ALBUM REVIEW: MAIA VON LEKOW by Maia Von Lekow As she stood in front of that microphoneProjecting her voice out moreMelodiously flirting […]
What next for Poetry in Kenya?
I am a firm believer in the power of poetry and art in general to not only inform and entertain but also […]
Poets and Writers meet at Nairobi’s Tech Hub for POWO
Last Saturday, 23rd April was the inaugural POWO event – a forum for Poets and Writers that seeks to encourage Kenyan Creative writers to […]
Why POWO? ‘The power of the pen meets the power of the Net’
The last 4 years have seen the rebirth of writing in Kenya and with it the emergence of performance poetry. Writers such […]
Boyd Oyier’s amazing potraits of Malcom X, Martin Luther King Jnr, Nelson Mandela and Lauryn Hill among others
If you have been to the WAPI events held every 3rd saturday of the month at the British Council parking lot then […]
It will be Baaba Maal not Yossou for Sawa Sawa Festival
Thanks to Buddah Blaze of WAPI, I got to learn that Yossou had expressed regrets in performing during the Sawa Sawa festival […]
Sanaa Noma – A showcase of Urban Creativity
Starting this Friday, 11th May, The GoDown Arts Centre will host a 2 week exposition of Poetry,Urban Dance,Hip-Hop Free style and Visual Art. In what might seem like […]