Book Launch, Talk & Slide Show: Mogadishu Then & Now, Nov. 22 2012 @ Italian Institute of Culture

Date: November 22, 2012
Venue: Italian Institute of Culture
Time: 6.30 pm
Entry: Free

Book Launch of Mogadishu Then & Now by Rasna Warah, Mohamud Diros & Ismail Osman
Presentation by Rasna Warah

The launch coincides with the closing of the exhibition Gates by Deqa Abshir

Panel: Snapshot Memories of Mogadishu, Sep 15 2012 @ National Museum

Storymoja Hay Festival Event:

SNAPSHOT MEMORIES OF MOGADISHU: Kenyan writer RASNA WARAH in conversation with Ahmed Jama (ARCI) and Bruno Geddo (UNHCR-Somalia) on the re-birth of Somalia

3 to 4 pm, Saturday, 15 September 2012, National Museum, Museum Hill, Nairobi

Ahmed Jama is a former resident of Mogadishu and Director of the African Resource and Capacity Initiative (ARCI)

Bruno Geddo is the UNHCR representative for Somalia

Rasna Warah is a Daily Nation columnist and co-author of Mogadishu Then and Now: A Pictorial Tribute to Africa’s Most Wounded City.

Book signing: Red Soil and Roasted Maize, Dec. 10 2011 @ Yaya

Red Soil and Roasted Maize is a selection of Kenyan writer Rasna Warah’s most poignant, introspective and satirical articles, columns and essays that provide snapshots and analyses of events that have shaped Kenyans’ lives and dreams in the last decade, from the turbulent transition to democracy in 2002 to a flawed election in 2007 that had a deep impact on Kenya’s political, economic and social landscape. She candidly deciphers and describes the perils of growing ethnic chauvinism and corruption in an increasingly polarised nation and examines her own life as a writer in one of Africa’s most diverse and unequal societies.

Red Soil and Roasted Maize is now out and available at Bookstop in Yaya Centre and online. It is also available as an e-book and on Amazon.

This Saturday, from 11 am till 1 p.m. Rasna Warah will be at the Bookshop, Yaya Centre for a book signing, along with other Kenyan writers.