Frank Njugi

Meja Mwangi
The Life and Works of Meja Mwangi, Kenya’s Great Chronicler

The late Meja Mwangi’s work insisted that literature espouses life. It cannot hold every detail,…

Memory of Princess Mumbi
“Memory of Princess Mumbi” Review: Damien Hauser’s Bold Afrofuturistic Swing Into the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Memory of Princess Mumbi is a micro-budget sci-fi odyssey that dazzles with invention while simultaneously…

Milisuthando
“Milisuthando” Review: Bongela-Davis’ Film Places the Nation in the Mirror of a Single Life

Milisuthando is the poignant story of the lived experience of a black and African woman…

Memories of Love Returned
“Memories of Love Returned” Review: Ntare Mwine Explores Photography, Memory, and Mortality in Uganda

Memories of Love Returned is a fugue in which the town of Mbirizi, Uganda’s preserved…

Alexander Nderitu
“Nairobi Is a City Where Literature Thrives”: In Conversation With Alexander Nderitu, Africa’s First Digital Novelist

I have always believed that authors make great entertainers, too, and deserve celebrity status” —…

Macondo Literary Festival
Macondo Literary Festival 2025: East Africa’s Literary Vanguard Holds Its Fifth Edition

Macondo Literary Festival is now one of Africa’s essential cultural rendezvous, a yearly promise kept…

Yariasu
“Yariasu” Review: Nyashinski’s Familiarity Dulls the Spark of His Latest Album

Yariasu feels weighed down by an overextended formula and, more troublingly, marred by puzzling sonic…

Sayari
“Sayari” Review: Omar Hamza’s Film Maps Love Across Kenya’s Social Terrain

Sayari’s accomplishment lies in its meaningful step toward grounding a Kenyan iteration of the romantic…

Victims of Madness 2.0
“Victims of Madness 2.0” Review: Wakadinali Chooses Refinement Over Reinvention

While each Wakadinali artiste performs within their domain of expertise, the absence of aesthetic progression…

Matabeleland
“Matabeleland” Review: Nyasha Kadandara’s Documentary Contends With Zimbabwe’s Troubled Past

Through the history of southwestern Zimbabwe, and the lives it has fractured, Matabeleland becomes a…