Storymoja festival celebrates flourishing African literature

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New voices of African literature and the future of literacy in Kenya.

In September, writers and readers gathered at Storymoja, an annual literary festival in Africa. A celebration of books and ideas, it was also a time to remember Ghanaian poet Kofi Awooner, one of the 67 victims of the Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi one year ago. Jeffrey Brown reports on new voices of African literature and the future of literacy in Kenya.

AIR DATE 10/16/14

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