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Commonwealth Poetry PodcastNext stop Kenya with poet and author Njeri WangariIn this fortnight’s episode, join Gyles and Aphra Brandreth as they discover more about Kenya and its poetry. We hear from Njeri Wangari, a Kenyan poet and author, who is living in Nairobi, and has performed her poetry globally. She is one of the key contributors to a recently published poetry anthology called Across Borders – An anthology of new poems from the Commonwealth. Poems this episode include: The 10th Daughter; My Country Kenya; and My People, all by Njeri Wangari; and A Freedom Song by Marjorie Oludhe-Macgoye.2024-04-2851 min
Yes Girls Podcast | Do, Be, Learn Something New53. The truth didn't get in the way of such a good story! First rule of this PR challenge w/ Njeri WangarĩIt's Yestification o'clock! So grab your favourite cup of coffee, kick back, and dive in as the Yes Girls take a daring leap into the glamorous and, at times, sensationalist world of PR, i.e. Public Relations.Watch this episode's VIDEO DIARY >> on our YouTube channel.Njeri Wangarĩ (Instagram: @kenyanpoet), a seasoned poet, writer, author, creative storyteller and public relations expert, is on hand to guide them in this journey.Timestamps for Specific Segments(00:00) Intro(03:20) Meet guest expert, Njeri Wangarĩ'2024-02-0324 min
The Failure EffectNjeri Wangari: A Lesson In Navigating a Failed App VentureNjeri Wangari, aka The Kenyan Poet, was doing very well in her IT career and pursuing her side-passion for telling Kenyan stories and poetry when the bug to start her own story-telling platform hit her. She then commenced the gruelling journey towards building an app that would supply the country's children with the very best of our indigenous knowledge, complete with all the bells and whistles, and even felt compelled to quit her job to pursue her passion project full-time at one point. What followed was a series of disappointments that saw her lose...2023-05-2650 min
Global Voices PodcastPodcast: Japan's Russia tightrope walk, returning African heritage, Turkey and Armenia start to thawEditor and contributors tell us stories from their regionsOriginally published on Global Voices“Wilbur May African Artifacts” by www78 is used under a CC BY-NC 2.0 license.
This episode starts in Japan, where Japan editor Nevin Thompson tells us about the complicated geopolitical path Japan is walking in the crisis of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Then we head to the continent of Africa, where Sub-Saharan Africa Njeri Wangari talks about the debate around the return of African cultural heritage and how it should also include audiovisual archives. We finish up in Turkey where Turkey...2022-04-0134 min
Ado Veli PodcastAdo Veli Podcast - Valentines Day Playlist 2022The month of love is here, Pesh and Ado Veli just got the right love songs selections to get you through Valentine's Day and the month of love.
Ado Veli Podcast season 09 episode 06, which is episode number 214.
Tracklist
Blinky Bill ft Lisa Oduor-Noah - Aje 0:00:00
Muthaka - Love Ballad No. 3 0:02:30
West Pangani - Lay Around 0:04:31
RAMIAN - 2 A.M 0:06:46
Sichangi ft Karun - Sucky Place 0:07:37
2022-02-101h 34
Kenyan Poet's PodcastEp 19: Soma Nami Books founders Muthoni and Wendy are redefining how and who we read in African LiteratureIn 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- a book hub and Nairobi's trendiest space that prides itself on having the widest variety of books by African authors.
Njeri visited the Soma Nami bookstore to film this episode on location as she spoke to Muthoni and Wendy on how the hub has become the go-to space for literary enthusiasts hungry to find and read stories...2021-10-1827 min
Kenyan Poet's PodcastEp 18: Olivia Ambani is doing better than just fine as a Singer, Songwriter & MarketerOlivia 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 year? Her recount of this sounds almost fictional.
In this episode, Olivia and Njeri begin the conversation with her experience finishing her album last year. how she stopped waiting for someone to come along and discover her, writing from a place of deep vulnerabilities, making her dreams come true and how the album's release has open...2021-10-0136 min
Kenyan Poet's PodcastEp 17: The Diary of a Crate Digger & Vinyl Hip Hop DJ on Kenya's Vinyl community with Sam the DiggaSam 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 inspiring remnant.
In this episode, Sam and Njeri begin the convo on growing up and their early musical influences. Both children of the '80s, cassettes were the in-were the in-thing during their formative years, so what sparked their love for vinyl records?
&nb...2021-09-2752 min
Kenyan Poet's PodcastEp 16: The makings of an award-winning film production designer, challenging gender stereotypes (With Sunshyn Siteiya)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 sees colours vividly, knows how to play with them, how to build concepts for different sets. Perhaps the most endearing thing about her is that she is unafraid to get her hands dirty be it climbing ladders haggling at a hardware or plastering a wall.
In this episode, we begin with a poetry reading - The Twist...2021-09-2233 min
Kenyan Poet's PodcastEp 15: Multilingualism, publishing & how language is determining participation in emerging knowledge societies (With Munyao Kilolo)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 languages. Why he believes in the power of language, not just as a primary vector for communicating information but also as the means to knowledge and as a carrier of culture.
Njeri and Kilolo discuss the Internet & how language is determining participation in emerging knowledge societies, and how Kiswahili seems to be taking the same...2021-09-1045 min
Kenyan Poet's PodcastEp 14: The Perilous Journey to Beyond My Nose (With Michael Onsando)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 book, invites him for a conversation about what it took to write and publish his latest book- The perilous journey to beyond my nose. Michael speaks on why we should judge this particular title by its cover, what the process was like writing, picking the title, the art cover and how the Down River Road...2021-08-0636 min
Kenyan Poet's PodcastEp 13: Tax exemptions on royalties for Kenyan digital content creators, copyright and increasing IP infringement cases (with Wandiri Karimi)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 proposal for an amendment in the Finance Bill 2021 as well as an amendment to the Copyright Act which will see artists taking the bulk of revenue generated from the sales of the ring-back tunes. Why is this ruling significant, when and how will it be enforced and what does this mean for Kenyan content creators?
Wandiri and...2021-07-2946 min
Kenyan Poet's PodcastEp 12: Digitizing Africa's heritage; An erased past, a contested present and an alternative future (With Chao Maina)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 should care about our past and why for her, preserving it is now more important than ever. How do lost memory & a lost history impact who we are, how we view ourselves and our values?
Our discussion on the intersection of tech & heritage, the challenges & opportunities in digitizing the African heritage whilst...2021-07-161h 01
Kenyan Poet's PodcastEp 11: Digitizing Maasai market and building an online marketplace for African artisans (with co-founders Muthoni Unchained)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, Pauline Kariuki together with Ivy Kinyanjui are on a quest to solve a problem that, though has been there for years, had gotten worse due to COVID-19.
How exactly are they transforming the lives of African artisans, how are they going about providing the artisans with financial solutions and what inspired their goal to...2021-07-1045 min
Kenyan Poet's PodcastEp 10: My life has been a pandemic until the pandemic happened (with Poet Teardrops)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 ways na ku-create a path for my own survival." That was his response when I asked him how his experience has been as a poet navigating the pandemic
In this episode, we discuss; living as a poet in a pandemic, the writing process, growing & maturing one's craft, mentorship, the...2021-07-0152 min
Kenyan Poet's PodcastEp 9: At 13 years old, she has published a book on Children who save the mangrovesThis 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 the title -Child Author to her name. Her book 'The Children who Saved the Mangrove published in April this year is a 56-page story about a boy called Kamau who learns about mangroves and how they help the environment. Then one day, he comes across people cutting them.
In this episode...2021-06-2509 min
Kenyan Poet's PodcastEp 8: African languages, a story of 3 generations, becoming a child author at 13yrs & writing to Ngugi wa Thiong'oHe 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 identity. It also gave her the words and the courage to write to Prof. Ngugi wa Thiong'o. At only 13 years old, she recently became a child author. Her book; The children who saved the mangrove.
In Part 1 of this Episode, Mwalimu Mbatia and Rehema Kibugi share a sto...2021-06-1828 min
Kenyan Poet's PodcastEp 7: Yasuke's story and Black representation in Animation, the state of African Animation (with Chief Nyamweya)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 storytelling, Illustration and animation to explore history, technology and creativity.
Our conversation centred around the new Netflix series Yasuke, the fact that he (Yasuke was a real person) and the first African and non -Japanese Samurai. We also asked the question, is this a new dawn for black characters in animation even as Chief spoke...2021-06-0940 min
Kenyan Poet's PodcastEp 6: Kenya's Poet Dennis Inkwa on his poetry journey, featuring Fatoumata Diawara & Dan AcedaDennis 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 Master Masese, Leon Kiptum and Michael Kwambo. He joined me to speak on his journey into poetry, how he's able to pluck his poetry even from Instagram posts and why politicians piss him off. Also featured are the musicians Fatoumata Diawara and Dan Chizi Aceda2021-06-0959 minKenyan Poet's PodcastEp 5: Teardrops; From acting to poetry, his creative process, performance & writing in ShengMark 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 household name. His passion and will to explore this newfound love was strong. Listen as he performs two of his poems.2021-06-0950 minKenyan Poet's PodcastEp 4: My life in Crime the Movie, Kenyan Poetry, AfroSoul and the musical journey of Carol AtemiDid 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 I explore the Afro Soul sound.2021-06-0958 minKenyan Poet's PodcastEp 3: Kenya's Music Industry and the state of the live concert scene (with Buddha Blaze)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. 2021-06-0926 minKenyan Poet's PodcastEp 2: Kenya's Music Industry and the state of the live concert scene (with Buddha Blaze)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 2021-06-0942 minKenyan Poet's PodcastEp 1: Hello and welcome to KenyanPoet's podcast; poetry, arts, culture & all that Jazz!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 arts & culture.
This first episode aired on July 6th, 2011, as I launched this podcast to feature news & information on Kenya's arts & culture scene with in-studio performances, interviews, discussions peppered with music and poetry.
After a long break, am excited to be back!
Since then, more...2021-06-0845 min
Tinzwe MediaMĩhũmũ ya Korona (Breath) by: Njeri Wangari | Ep 1Episode 1 of "Inside Wants Out" begins with a poem titled Mĩhũmũ ya Korona, which translates to Breath in English, written and narrated by Njeri Wangari from Kenya.
This episode featured an introduction by the poet who explains the reason for the poem. Then you'll hear the poem narrated in Gĩkũyũ (Kikuyu) and lastly the English translation of the poem.
About the Poet:
Njeri Wangarĩ is an acclaimed spoken word artist, writer, speaker and digital marketer whose passion and work lies at the intersection of arts, culture, technology and new media in Africa...2020-12-0706 minInside Wants OutMĩhũmũ ya Korona (Breath) by: Njeri Wangari | Ep 1Episode 1 of "Inside Wants Out" begins with a poem titled Mĩhũmũ ya Korona, which translates to Breath in English, written and narrated by Njeri Wangari from Kenya.
This episode featured an introduction by the poet who explains the reason for the poem. Then you'll hear the poem narrated in Gĩkũyũ (Kikuyu) and lastly the English translation of the poem.
About the Poet:
Njeri Wangarĩ is an acclaimed spoken word artist, writer, speaker and digital marketer whose passion and work lies at the intersection of arts, culture, technology and new media in Africa. Hailed among the most talente...2020-12-0706 min