Bestselling Kenyan Book Rough Silk turned a year in April.
It’s the most widely talked about book in the country one year later and there is an event being held on Saturday the 18th of May 2023 for its anniversary in Nairobi.
Top ten best seller at all bookshops its stocked at.
· Only book from East Africa to be featured at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in the UK 2023.
· Book of the month in more than 10 Kenyan book clubs.
· Taken part in charitable works including free books to schools, libraries, free appearances in book clubs.
· US tour in July 2023 where it showed in DC and New Jersey.
· UK tour in October 2023 where it showed in London.
· Only Kenyan self-published book at the Waterstones book stores in the UK.
· Author was speaker at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
· Best Seller and Book of the Month at National book shop Text Book Center in the month of April 2024.
· Stocked in Amazon for more impact to the world and translated in more than 4 languages.
· The only nonpolitical, non-celebrity memoir to make best seller in Kenya.
· Featured in all mainstream media on Father’s Day 2023.
· Possible Mainstream publishing and Movie in the works.
This will be a literary event to be attended by Kenyan readers, authors, business leaders, artists and fans of Rough Silk from around the country.
There has been a clamor for Burnt orange fabric among tailors as attendees try to get the dress code which is Black and Burnt Orange.
To book a ticket you pay Kshs. 3,000 to 0702 – 917813 and get an invite from the same number.
The Kenyan News Pulse will be on the ground to cover the event.
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