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Billy Kahora is a Kenyan writer and editor based in Nairobi. He was commended by the 2007 Caine Prize judges for his story Treadmill Love. His stories Urban Zoning and Gorilla’s Apprentice were shortlisted for the prize in 2012 and 2014, respectively.
His research interests include narrative voice and multi-vocality in the novel; creative writing teaching histories and pedagogies; depictions of mental health in fiction; realisms, the short story and creative non-fiction.
Nov 4, 2019 · Finding the Zone: Billy Kahora Takes Charge. Billy Kahora is a writer of the impact of an age in Kenyan history. In his writings, you piece together the etymology and see that at soul, the stories begin in the first decade of Kenya’s independence.
Back. Mr Billy Kahora. Current positions. Lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing. Department of English. Contact. billy.kahora@bristol.ac.uk. 3-5 Woodland Road. Clifton. Bristol. BS8 1TB. +44 117 455 1060. Press and media. Many of our academics speak to the media as experts in their field of research.
Sep 4, 2019 · Billy Kahora is an award-winning writer and editor, and lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at Bristol University. He spoke to Bristol 24/7 about his recently published short story collection, The Cape Cod Bicycle War, and Bristol’s literature scene. In an interview in 2015 you said, “Stories are a prerequisite of humanity”.
IWP alum Billy Karanja KAHORA is the author of the non-fiction novella The True Story Of David Munyakei (2010) and the story collection The Cape Cod Bicycle War (2019). His stories have been shortlisted for the Caine Prize for Africa Writing; among his award-winning screenplays are those for Soul Boy and Nairobi Half Life.
With the tortuous presidential election process in Kenya as a background, Billy Kahora came back to storytelling and his interest in the inscription of African languages in the world literature canon. He is here being interviewed by Dr. Josiane Ranguin [hereafter JR] of Université Sorbonne Paris Nord. BK: I was talking during the conference ...
