African book fair brings together readers, writers at Kenya National Library

Guests pictured during the African Book Fair held at the Kenya National Library [Anjellah Owino/Standard]

Bookworms Muthoni Muiruri and Wendy Njoroge met at a book club founded by the former. Wendy was then a member of the Soma Nami book club that was dedicated to African literature.

The two saw that it was a challenge to locally find the books they wanted to read. They saw it as an opportunity to make books by African authors accessible in the country by co-founding a bookstore, Soma Nami Books.