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Gen Next: Young writers bypassing publishers through strategic partnerships with Nuria, Alliance Francaise

In 2021, I met Silas Nyanchwani in Kitengela and we got taking about books and publishing. This was shortly after he had published his first book Sexorcised. I was interested in knowing what writers of his generation and below were writing.

"A lot is going on," he said in his soft-spoken nature. "Young people are writing, but they are mostly self-published."

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