Mother tongue on the page
Green Bunk Stage
Sun, 29th June
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Panellists: Prof. Kithaka wa Mberia, Jane Obuchi
Moderator: Francis Mutegi
Spotlight on literary publishing challenging English hegemony with Prof. Kithaka wa Mberia and Jane Obuchi. Prof. Kithaka is a prolific Kiswahili poet and dramatist writer who teaches Linguistics and Languages at the University of Nairobi. Jane Obuchi is a writer, researcher, and teacher who has published a novel, a collection of children’s short stories in Ekegusii and a dictionary of Ekegusii phrasal verbs.
