An anthology for the Kistrech poetry festival 2023

Kistrech International Poetry Festival in Kenya is currently the most popular and largest literary event in Africa. Founded in 2013 by Dr. Christopher Okemwa, its aim is to bring local and international poets together on one platform every year. It promotes poetry, art and cultural exchanges between local and foreign artists. Spoken-word, rap, song, poetry, oral poetry and mashairi (Swahili poetry), are featured. Students and upcoming poets, especially those from Africa, have benefitted a lot from this festival. They get the opportunity to interact and read their poetry alongside international poets and as a result several of them have had their poems published by reputed magazines and literary journals. Others have published their poems in book form with reputed publishers. Through the festival, some local poets have received invitations to participate at international poetry festivals. Several student-poets have landed scholarships to study abroad, courtesy of the Kistrech Poetry Festival. MA & PhD students of literature in Kenyan Universities get the opportunity to learn of foreign authors and their literary works that they didn’t know existed. Academic papers on poetry and related genres that are presented by guest poets, alongside the festival’s activities, benefit the post-graduate students in Kenya.

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