Creative writing production on the African continent since the early 2000s has been driven by the emergence of a new generation of literary producers and networks. At the onset of this emergence the industry concentrated its resources in developing writers and in the specificities of creative writing craft. Recently, however, there has been a shift to supporting technical aspects of the literary and publishing industry in areas such as editing, book-making and literary arts management. This push has also seen the emergence of literary activism. Billy Kahora traces the emergence of the new creative writing teaching initiatives and how they form part of this new literary activism within the larger histories and trajectories of literary production on the continent.