On Saturday 8 October and Sunday 9 October, Vava Coffee, a local Kenyan coffee company, was featured in a BBC World News television programme dubbed ‘World Challenge 2011’.

On September 26^th 2011, Kenyans woke up to the devastating news that Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Muta Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, had lost her battle to ovarian cancer at Nairobi Hospital aged 71 years.

There are only a few things that get a writer giddy with excitement. Quite obviously getting published and winning a literary award rank highly. However, in my book, attending a literary festival combines both joys because it is a window into a possible future in which one is a published and award-winning author!

On September 27th the Kenyan Boys Choir will share the same stage as Grammy Award winner, Nelly Furtado, Award winning actor, film director and political activist, Danny Glover among other notable individuals at the We-Day festival in Toronto, Canada.

The Boys secured a slot after performing a Luo rendition of Nelly Furtado’s favourite song, ‘Powerless’, during the opening of an art centre at Kisaruni Girls High School in the Maasai Mara this May.

Billed to be the biggest comedy night on Kenyan soil, ‘Night of a thousand laughs’ held at Bomas of Kenya last month was truly a hoot. The line-up featured Klint the Drunk and Gordon (Nigeria), Pablo (Uganda), Tshepo Mogale (South Africa) and Kenya’s very own Eric Omondi.

They are calling it a chance to ‘stroke your biggest erogenous zone. Three days of uncensored, engaging stimulation.’ Get your mind out of the gutter. The StoryMoja Hay Festival running this September 15 -18^th at the Railway Club is a chance to meet with the brightest thinkers from home and abroad.