Rome s international literature festival returns for its 2022 edition this summer, taking place in the spectacular setting of the Palatine Hill during July.
Okwiri Oduor’s “Things They Lost” joins Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s “House of Rust” and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s “The Dragonfly Sea” as one of three recently published novels by Kenyan women that place Kenyan girls at the center of a magical quest.
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2021 was a great year for African writing, with several authors winning prestigious awards. Peter Kimani, leading Kenyan author, journalist and academic, lists his top five picks.