In our season's Finale, Njeri is joined by two amazing women; Muthoni Muiruri and Wendy Njoroge who embody the new face of growing online and offline spaces for contemporary African literature. They are the founders of the Soma Nami bookstore-

Ep 18: Olivia Ambani is doing better than just fine as a Singer, Songwriter & Marketer

Oct 1st, 2021 36m 6s

Olivia Ambani is a singer, songwriter and marketer whose song Falling Star from her debut album THE AWAKENING was featured in a movie “Just In Time” currently showing on NETFLIX. How did that happen within months of releasing her album last ye

Ep 17: The Diary of a Crate Digger & Vinyl Hip Hop DJ on Kenya's Vinyl community with Sam the Digga

Sep 27th, 2021 52m 32s

Sam the Digga (Sam Ombasa ) lives to play, collect, listen to and share records. He is perhaps one of Kenya’s most underrated Vinyl DJs whose passion to keep the art of playing a record on a turntable in the club alive has made him a truly ins

Ep 16: The makings of an award-winning film production designer, challenging gender stereotypes (With Sunshyn Siteiya)

Sep 22nd, 2021 33m 14s

Siteiya Warui popularly known online as Sunshyn Siteiya is a polymath. She is an award-winning film production designer, art director, creative designer and props master. In other words, she is a creative fundi with a wild imagination. She se

Ep 15: Multilingualism, publishing & how language is determining participation in emerging knowledge societies (With Munyao Kilolo)

Sep 10th, 2021 45m 55s

Munyao Kilolo is a writer, editor, Journalist, African Language literature enthusiast and founding member of Jalada Africa.In this episode, Kilolo is telling Njeri about why he is such a staunch advocate and vocal proponent for African langua

Ep 14: The Perilous Journey to Beyond My Nose (With Michael Onsando)

Aug 6th, 2021 36m 55s

Michael Onsando is an essayist, poet and author of 3 poetry collections. His latest book just came out in July and it is something quite unlike anything you have read.In this episode, Njeri- excited to be reading a copy of Michael's latest boo

Ep 13: Tax exemptions on royalties for Kenyan digital content creators, copyright and increasing IP infringement cases (with Wandiri Karimi)

Jul 29th, 2021 46m 32s

In this episode, Njeri is in conversation with Wandiri Karimi, an intellectual property expert and the Director, Kenya Conservatoire of Music.Kenya's National Assembly recently exempted Kenyan artists from the 25% excise duty following a p

Ep 12: Digitizing Africa's heritage; An erased past, a contested present and an alternative future (With Chao Maina)

Jul 16th, 2021 1h 1m

Chao Maina is a digital heritage specialist, a digital humanities scholar and a headstrong historian whose activism is for a contested present, an erased past and an alternative future.Njeri and Chao had a great conversation about why we shoul

Ep 11: Digitizing Maasai market and building an online marketplace for African artisans (with co-founders Muthoni Unchained)

Jul 10th, 2021 45m 37s

They both quit their well-paying jobs in the middle of a pandemic to build Muthoni Unchained- a company whose culture hub and online marketplace for artisans is empowering Africa’s creative economy. Only in their 20s, Nyambogo Jennifer, Pauli

Ep 10: My life has been a pandemic until the pandemic happened (with Poet Teardrops)

Jul 1st, 2021 52m 25s

Teardrops was my very first guest on this podcast 10 years ago. A decade later, I invited him back to catch up on what he has been up to recently."My life has been a pandemic until the pandemic happened. Nilikuwa nishajua ku-navigate my own wa

Ep 9: At 13 years old, she has published a book on Children who save the mangroves

Jun 25th, 2021 9m 14s

This is part two of a two-part conversation I had with Rehema Kibugi & Mwalimu Mbatia on their passion for teaching & learning Kikuyu and how that has sparked Rehema's interest in writing.Rehema Kibugi is only 13 years old and already, she has

Ep 8: African languages, a story of 3 generations, becoming a child author at 13yrs & writing to Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Jun 18th, 2021 28m 42s

He taught English and science for 30 years. Upon retirement, he has found a new passion for teaching Gĩkũyũ (Kikuyu) to both young and old via zoom.Her quest to learn her mother tongue set her on a path to discover and take pride in her identi

Ep 7: Yasuke's story and Black representation in Animation, the state of African Animation (with Chief Nyamweya)

Jun 9th, 2021 40m 2s

Following an 8 year break, we are back!!In this first episode of Season 2, I reconnected with an old friend in the Kenyan creative space, Chief Nyamweya- Creative Director of Freehand Studios and a self-educated artist whose work fuses storyte

Ep 6: Kenya's Poet Dennis Inkwa on his poetry journey, featuring Fatoumata Diawara & Dan Aceda

Jun 9th, 2021 59m 22s

Dennis Inkwa is one of Kenya's most talented yet uncelebrated contemporary poets. Dennis and I started out in the Kenyan poetry writing and performance scene circa 2006 and even formed a collective called Mstari wa Nne together with Grand Maste

Ep 5: Teardrops; From acting to poetry, his creative process, performance & writing in Sheng

Jun 9th, 2021 50m 44s

Mark Joshua Ouma, better known as Teardrops, is a Kenyan spoken word artist based in Nairobi. As he was transitioning from acting and breaking into the Kenyan Poetry scene, I had a sit down with him. Back then, he had not yet become a househol

Ep 4: My life in Crime the Movie, Kenyan Poetry, AfroSoul and the musical journey of Carol Atemi

Jun 9th, 2021 58m 34s

Did you know that there was a time one of Kenya's best selling books, My Life in Crime was to be made into a movie. I spoke to the director and cast on this project. I also feature some Kenyan Poetry, as well as Carol Atemi's musical journey as

Ep 3: Kenya's Music Industry and the state of the live concert scene (with Buddha Blaze)

Jun 9th, 2021 26m 14s

This is part two of my conversation with Buddha Blaze- an events promoter and cultural consultant about the Kenyan Music Industry as well as the state of the live concert scene.

Ep 2: Kenya's Music Industry and the state of the live concert scene (with Buddha Blaze)

Jun 9th, 2021 42m 15s

I spoke to Buddha Blaze, an events promoter and cultural consultant in a two-part series about the Kenyan Music Industry as well as the state of the live concert scene. Here is part one

Ep 1: Hello and welcome to KenyanPoet's podcast; poetry, arts, culture & all that Jazz!

Jun 8th, 2021 45m 31s

Niaje!! My name is Njeri Wangari ( KenyanPoet) I am a poet, writer, editor, speaker, cultural publicist and digital storyteller.I've been blogging since 2004 and KenyanPoet.com is where I share my work and where I cover news & information on

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