Tag Archives | Billy Kahora

Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams:
A history of creative writing instruction in East Africa

By Chronic on April 18, 2017 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration

From the earnest hustle of our elders in writing during the 1960s […]

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The Second German Chronic is Here

By Chronic on February 27, 2017 in News

The second German-language edition of the Chronic takes up the theme of new […]

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Authority Stealing in Kenya

By Chronic on May 20, 2015 in Arts & Pedagogy, Books & Oration

In pursuit of some scriptwriter talent, Billy Kahora discovers that academic mantras, […]

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How to Eat a Forest

By Chronic on March 19, 2015 in Healing & bodies, Systems of Governance

Billy Kahora recounts a journey into Kenya’s Mau Forest, where he confronts […]

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Buru Buru

By Chronic on September 23, 2014 in Books & Oration, Faith & Ideology, Systems of Governance

Billy Kahora reflects on the state of the ‘estate’ of his Nairobi […]

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Authority Stealing: The business of crime writing in Kenya, India and Nigeria

By Chronic on July 9, 2013 in Books & Oration, Media & Propaganda

Kenya In pursuit of some scriptwriter talent, Billy Kahora discovers that […]

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Juba ‘I will make my life here’

By Chronic on February 13, 2013 in Cash & Commerce

The metronomes of ancient history, the legacy of war, the wavering prosperity […]

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