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Kwani? (Sheng for so what?) is a leading African literary magazine based in Kenya that has been called "undoubtedly the most influential journal to have emerged from sub-Saharan Africa". The magazine grew out of a series of conversations that took place among a group of Nairobi-based writers in the early 2000s. Its founding editor, Binyavanga Wainaina, spearheaded the project shortly after winning the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing. The first print issue of the magazine was published in 2003.

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rdfs:label	Kwani? (en) Kwani? (nl) Kwani? (pt) Kwani (sv)
rdfs:comment	Kwani? är ett kenyanskt litterärt magasin och förlag, grundat 2003. Tidskriften har kommit att bli Östafrikas viktigaste för ny litteratur. I redaktionen ingår bland andra Binyavanga Wainaina och Billy Kahora. Tidskriften ägs av en stiftelse, Kwani Trust. (sv) Kwani? é um dos mais importantes jornais quenianos, fundandaem 2003. (pt) Kwani? (Sheng for so what?) is a leading African literary magazine based in Kenya that has been called "undoubtedly the most influential journal to have emerged from sub-Saharan Africa". The magazine grew out of a series of conversations that took place among a group of Nairobi-based writers in the early 2000s. Its founding editor, Binyavanga Wainaina, spearheaded the project shortly after winning the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing. The first print issue of the magazine was published in 2003. (en) Kwani? is een Engelstalig onafhankelijk literair tijdschrift in Kenia. Kwani? werd door Binyavanga Wainaina in Nairobi opgericht in 2003, nadat hij in 2002 was onderscheiden met de Caine Prize for African Writing. Met het geld richtte hij het fonds Kwani Trust op dat het blad uitgeeft. Het fonds wordt financieel gesteund door de Ford Foundation. Wainaina vormt samen met de redactie. In Kwani? - Swahili voor Nou en? - ligt veel nadruk op poëzie, creatief taalgebruik en humor, en daarnaast op verhalen uit en commentaren op de dagelijkse realiteit in Kenia. (nl)
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Link from a Wikipage to an external page	http://www.artmatters.info/%3Farticleid=64 https://www.kwani.org/ http://www.kwani.org http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/1688734/-/item/0/-/73602o/-/index.html
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title	Kwani? (en)
has abstract	Kwani? (Sheng for so what?) is a leading African literary magazine based in Kenya that has been called "undoubtedly the most influential journal to have emerged from sub-Saharan Africa". The magazine grew out of a series of conversations that took place among a group of Nairobi-based writers in the early 2000s. Its founding editor, Binyavanga Wainaina, spearheaded the project shortly after winning the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing. The first print issue of the magazine was published in 2003. Kwani? is produced by the Kwani Trust, which is "dedicated to nurturing and developing Kenya’s and Africa’s intellectual, creative and imagination resources through strategic literary interventions". The organisation receives significant funding from the Ford Foundation. The magazine has become a major platform for writing from across the African continent, and has served as a launching pad for the careers of several writers, including Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, winner of the 2003 Caine Prize; Uwem Akpan, author of the bestselling short-story collection Say You're One of Them, and Billy Kahora, now the magazine's managing editor. Each edition of the journal contains up to 500 or more pages of new journalism, fiction, experimental writing, poetry, cartoons, photographs, ideas, literary travel writing and creative non-fiction. Each volume of Kwani? is organized around a theme. For example, the seventh edition, subtitled "Majuu" (a Sheng (Nairobi street slang) word meaning "overseas"), was "a 570-page testament to the journal's diasporic roots". (en) Kwani? is een Engelstalig onafhankelijk literair tijdschrift in Kenia. Kwani? werd door Binyavanga Wainaina in Nairobi opgericht in 2003, nadat hij in 2002 was onderscheiden met de Caine Prize for African Writing. Met het geld richtte hij het fonds Kwani Trust op dat het blad uitgeeft. Het fonds wordt financieel gesteund door de Ford Foundation. Wainaina vormt samen met de redactie. In Kwani? - Swahili voor Nou en? - ligt veel nadruk op poëzie, creatief taalgebruik en humor, en daarnaast op verhalen uit en commentaren op de dagelijkse realiteit in Kenia. Naast het tijdschrift breidde Kwani Trust het aantal activiteiten uit, zoals een maandelijkse poetry slam, de Nairobi Salon, een schrijversforum, publieke debatten en prozalezingen, workshops, wedstrijden, een jaarlijks literair festival en de uitgifte van boeken. Het bereik van Kwani Trust is inmiddels grensoverschrijdend in Afrika. Kwani werd in 2010 onderscheiden met een Prins Claus Prijs. (nl) Kwani? är ett kenyanskt litterärt magasin och förlag, grundat 2003. Tidskriften har kommit att bli Östafrikas viktigaste för ny litteratur. I redaktionen ingår bland andra Binyavanga Wainaina och Billy Kahora. Tidskriften ägs av en stiftelse, Kwani Trust. (sv) Kwani? é um dos mais importantes jornais quenianos, fundandaem 2003. (pt)
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