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Does more prize money = more creativity?

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Ever since I heard that Kenya’s government spokesman Alfred Mutua has written a book on, wait for it, How to...
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When schools were opening, there were complaints all over, especially on social media, by folks, with kids in academies, expressing...
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When former Education Cabinet Secretary, Fred Matiang’i realised that corrupt booksellers and head teachers were pilfering money meant for the...
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Mbugua, Dawood to battle it out for Wahome Mutahi Literary Prize

This year’s Wahome Mutahi Literary prize is shaping up to be another epic battle between surgeon Yusuf Dawood and journalist...
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Hotel Rwanda: A work of fiction?

The Movie Hotel Rwanda might have done a lot to sensitise the world on the 1994 Rwandan genocide, but not...
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Nudes make for good art, but not all

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Three needless murders and a writer’s vengeance

History has a funny way of repeating itself, especially if we do not learn from it. In 1980, Frank Sundstrom,...
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