Richard Mabala, Nahida Esmail and Lubacha Deus successive winners of CODE’s Burt Award for African Literature were invited to meet and converse with their audiences about their writing journeys, experience of writing and promote their books and receive feedback from readers. During the session participants raised issues of our education system; that it doesn’t prepare […]
Watoto na Vitabu Saturday program routinely organises an end of quarter fair, where children showcase their acquired reading skills and creative writing prowess. This time round the session was planned to coincide with the Book Bazaar. The event featured the following activities: Book Launch of children own story book titled, Turtle and Swan and Other […]
Waka Poets facilitated a session with 2 poets from Art hub Zimbabwe attended by 15 participants. The poets, namely Tinashe Tafirenyika winner of National Arts Merit Award (NAMA) in spoken Word Poet in Zimbabwe 2017 and 2018 and Morset Billie were accompanied by Hub administrators
Soma organized its 2nd Book Bazaar a Soma Book Café its literary hub and co-creation space on Saturday 27th April 2017 from 10 to 17 hours. The following book related activities featured: Book Exhibition and Book Swapping; Watoto na Vitabu end of quarter fair; Meet the Author session where readers had a chance to converse […]
Soma was honored to receive Jote Taddese, Board President of Books for Africa accompanied by David Robinson, Books for Africa Ambassador. The latter is also founder of Bara Village Community Resource Centre in Songwe, together with his friend Dr Julius From Water Read Foundation ; currently looking into working partnership with Soma Book Cafe to […]
A visit from the USAID Mission Director Andy Karas at Somabookcafe on Saturday 23rd March 2019. A tour to the bookshop with Soma’s ED Mama Demere Kitunga.
Tunawakumbusha walimu wa shule zote kuendelea kuhimiza wanafunzi kumalizia kuandika na kukutumia hadithi zao kwaajili ya shindano la Andika na Soma mzunguko wa sita. Mwisho wa kupokea hadithi ni tarehe 30 Machi 2019. Bado kuna muda wa kuwasilisha hadithi yako fupi kupitia hapa.
The workshop for the top 10 Andika na Soma 2017/18 Round 5 contestants begins next week at Soma. This will be concluded with a prize giving event/ceremony on 9/12/2018. This post will be updated until then.
Saturday (1/12/2018) Soma had a Watoto & Vitabu Open Day for a day of fun and books. What Happened in Pictures
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