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THE STANDARD SUNDAY MAGAZINE Binyavanga It’s Boxing Day, 2006, in Lamu and we are on a moonlit lit rooftop of a multi-storey house rented by an Egyptian lad called Djibril with writers on the 2006 Kwani – SLS (Summer Literary Seminars) Lamu workshop. Kwani? founder Binyavanga Wainaina is drinking beer. I’m on vodka. Writer Martin Kimani is sipping Campari, as Kwani? Editor Charles ‘Potash’ Mathathia is smoking, and because the electricity in Lamu is off for (reliable old KPLC), we all have our torches on, a surreal aesthetic. We thought this Kwani fest would be the start of an annual pilgrimage to the seaside, Christmas cancelled for literary workshops. ....
THE STANDARD By Tony Mochama | January 30th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 Oscar Lithonde, a footballer juggles his ball showcasing his skills to revelers outside Tribeka and Mojo s lounge bars. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard] Last Saturday, a video of construction workers demolishing the first floor of a building on Banda Street, reducing the closed Club Mojo’s to rubble, went viral. When Mojo’s was shut down last year, like almost all night clubs in the country, thanks to a curfew brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, the hope among CBD revelers, the last of a dying breed, was that it was being renovated. ....