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Stanley Onjezani Kenani (born in 1976) is a Malawian writer of poetry and short stories.[1] He has performed at the Arts Alive Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa, Poetry Africa in Durban, South Africa, Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) in Harare, Zimbabwe, and at the Struga Poetry Evenings in North Macedonia.[1] He has read with several famous African and world poets, including Mahmoud Darwish of Palestine, Natalie Handal of Palestine/USA, Carolyn Forche of USA, Dennis Brutus of South Africa, Keorapetse Kgositsile of South Africa, Shimmer Chinodya of Zimbabwe, Chirikure Chirikure of Zimbabwe, Benedicto Wokomaatani Malunga of Malawi and Alfred Msadala of Malawi among others.[2]
From 2004 to 2007, Kenani served as president of the Malawi Writers Union,[3][4] an organization that as of 2014 had 800 members.[5] An accountant who is also a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA),[1] a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and a Certified Public Accountant in Malawi (CPA-M), he also serves as acting treasurer for the Pan African Writers' Association (PAWA), a continental body of writers with headquarters in Accra, Ghana.[6] Since 2010 he has worked for the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS).[7]
Kenani's collection of poems Slaughterhouse of Sanity is yet to be published, but several poems in it have been published in A Hudson View and other journals and magazines. His short story collection, For Honour and Other Stories, was published by eKhaya in 2011.[8]
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- ^ "About Us". Malawi Writers Union. Writers Union of Malawi. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
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- ^ "Interview: Stanley Kenani FCCA, internal auditor, UN Office of Internal Oversight Services | ACCA Global". www.accaglobal.com. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- ^ "eKhaya Author Stanley Kenani Shortlisted for the 2012 Caine Prize for African Writing". Books Live. 4 May 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2015.