The Nairobi Bookshelf is a platform for ideas, thoughts, reflections, musings, rants and perspectives on life, death and the in-betweens. The platform engages in writing, reading, rereading, publishing and appreciation of arts, texts, literature, culture, society, politics and whatnot. This is basically a platform on everything about life and the vanity of it. The platform publishes creative, critical, reflective and other writings. It is a fusion of the serious and the playful. It brings together unyielding optimism, sworn pessimism and reluctant cynicism.

The Bookshelf is a buffet of known, established and celebrated writers and literary critics as well as—and importantly so—voices of new writers, unsettled readers and emerging critics. The platform seeks to stimulate dialogue between and among the two groups. We are interested in the manner in which literary, social and cultural knowledge is produced, consumed and appreciated. In a way, therefore, the platform is an archive of narratives, experiences, thoughts, feelings, aspirations, hopes, fears, regrets, wishes, failures, achievements, dreams, whatnot.