German Culture Center and National Museum in African Story Project
With the major objective of promoting creative writing in the Country German Culture Center in Nairobi will team up with National Museum of Kenya in publishing local stories from Kenya communities.
Kenya young writers will be allowed to submit stories from there communities for publication in book form according to information officers from German Culture Center, adding that is the only easy way to promote upcoming writers.
Kenya is Country with over 42 tribes with rich stories ever been published in book form and that is why German Culture Center in Nairobi and National Museum of Kenya had mooted the project which will see the untold stories being published
Writers had been requested to submit there stories so that they can be published in book form without paying any fee because they project is free.
The project had come at the time with national outcry that African story telling traditional is coming to the end because youth are no longer interest because of new technologies, but instead spend most of there time on net
During the project writers are allowed to submit more stories given that only the best ones will be considered for publication.
Stories for consideration are supposed to be in English according to the organizers of the joint project which is likely going to put Kenya on the World map of story telling.
Kenya is not the only Country in East Africa to publish its traditional stories recently Uganda published its folk stories in a book form but the different was that it was compiled by University dons
Majority of young writers who speak to Equator.com praised both German Culture Center and National Museum of Kenya for giving them chance without discrimination.
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