Kenyan poet Njeri Wangari writes and performs poetry as well as being a writer and storyteller both online and in print. She has been a Global Voices author since 2008. We first chatted about her life ...

What does the future hold for poetry in East Africa? Has time for juicy pieces like Okot P’Bitek’s Song of Lawino gone? Can the glory be reclaimed? Albeit these could be questions many poetry lovers ...

The 2025 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship came to a close on Saturday with Georgia securing the women’s national title. Sixteen... Friday’s rendition of the NCAA Track and Field National ...

Kenyan performing artist, director, playwright, storyteller, poet and university lecturer, Bantu Mwaura, was found dead outside his gate at the Sunlight estate in Nairobi’s Lang’ata area, on Monday ...

"Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance." — John Keats (1795 - 1821) ...

Kofi Awoonor, a well-loved Ghanaian poet, was killed and his son wounded at the Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya, on Saturday. Awoonor, 78, was also a statesman — he served as Ghana's ...

Protests against Kenyan President William Ruto have sparked a new wave of music, poetry and art. That's energizing the young Kenyans leading the protests, even as human rights groups say many of the ...