James Murua is a blogger, journalist, and podcaster who has written for many media outlets in a career spanning print and web. In the last decade, he has focused on the literary arts space in Africa, the continent, and the diaspora. His online space WritingAfrica.com, founded in 2013, focuses on literary news and is today’s number-one blog on African literature.
He was the Best Writer “Theatre, Art and Culture” at Kenya’s Sanaa Theatre Awards and was listed as one of the top men in digital in Kenya in 2018. The 2020 Caine Prize for African Writing judge has conducted workshops on blogging and social media in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, and Tanzania and has been a media consultant for the Goethe Institut, Nairobi.
He was an editor for The Star newspaper in Kenya for five years and a columnist for nine where he was voted “Columnist of the Year” in 2009. He has also been a contributor to Management Magazine (Kenya), The Daily Nation (Kenya), The Nairobian (Kenya), DigifyAfrica.com (South Africa), Johannesburg Review of Books (South Africa), and Africa Independent (South Africa).