The biggest literary event in the region is the Storymoja Festival hosted every year at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi. This year's event was held last week from October 17-21 and hosted some of the biggest names in African literature including Nigerians Teju Cole and Chuma Nwokolo, author Michela Wrong famous for her book Its Our Time To Eat and many more from around the world. The biggest name of the festival was Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka who was in town to give the annual Wangari Maathai Memorial lecture. On Friday evening, there was a gala at the National Museums with...
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