Stanley Onjezani Kenani

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Stanley Onjezani Kenani is a Malawian writer born in 1976. A poet, Kenani has performed at the Arts Alive Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa, Poetry Africa in Durban, South Africa, Harare International Festival of the Arts in Harare, Zimbabwe and at the Struga Poetry Evenings in Macedonia. 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, Kereopetse Kgositsile of South Africa, Shimmer Chinodya of Zimbabwe, Chirikure Chirikure of Zimbabwe, Benedicto Wokomaatani Malunga of Malawi and Alfred Msadala of Malawi among scores of other poets.

Stanley has also been quite successful at short story writing. He has won several awards in his country. In 2007, his short story, For Honour,went on to win third prize in an HSBC/SA PEN Competition whose participants were drawn from 12 countries of Southern Africa, whose winners were selected by multi-award winning Nobel Laureate JM Coetzee. The same short story went on to be shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2008 (Caine Prize is Africa's highest literary award, sometimes referred to as "The African Booker.")The story is published in an anthology called "African Pens: New Writing From Southern Africa 2007."

Stanley has served as president of the 400 member-strong Malawi Writers Union. An accountant who is also a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)and a Certified Public Accountant in Malawi (CPA-M), Stanley also serves as acting treasurer for the Pan African Writers Association (PAWA), a continental body of writers with headquarters in Accra, Ghana.

Stanley'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 several other journals and magazines.