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Billy Kahora is a Kenyan writer and editor based in Nairobi. He was commended by the 2007 Caine Prize judges for his story Treadmill Love. His stories Urban Zoning and Gorilla’s Apprentice were shortlisted for the prize in 2012 and 2014, respectively.
Mr Billy K Kahora. Lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing, Department of English. Email billy.kahora bristol.ac uk. BS8 1TB. Overview. Fingerprint. Network. Projects(1) Research Outputs(5) Activities(12) Similar Profiles(1) Personal profile. Research interests.
Mr Billy Kahora. Current positions. Lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing. Department of English. Contact. billy.kahora@bristol.ac.uk. 3-5 Woodland Road. Clifton. Bristol. BS8 1TB. +44 117 455 1060. Press and media. Many of our academics speak to the media as experts in their field of research.
Managing Editor for Kwani?, and a fiction writer, Billy Kahora [hereafter BK] was one of the Keynote Speakers at the conference: “La ‘Renaissance Littéraire’ Africaine Anglophone en Débat” held on July 5, 2017, at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord.
- Josiane Ranguin
- 2020
Billy Kahora studied Creative Writing as a Chevening Scholar at the University of Edinburgh in 2007. Before that, he spent eight years studying and working in South Africa, and was Editorial Assistant for All Africa.com in Washington D.C. He also has degrees in journalism and media studies.
With the tortuous presidential election process in Kenya as a background, Billy Kahora came back to storytelling and his interest in the inscription of African languages in the world literature canon. See Full PDF. Download PDF.
Billy Kahora is one of Kenya’s current leading writers. His short story, ‘The Gorilla’s Apprentice’, which engages with Kenya’s 2007 post-election violence, was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2014. Billy was also a script-writer for the acclaimed film, Nairobi Half Life (2012).
