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GenCon| How to Unban Books
August, 22, 2024
Afronauts | Kwame Mbalia: Writing, Publishing, and Making More Pie
November, 27, 2023
Texas Bluebonnet Award – Black Boy Joy Editor Kwame Mbalia
March, 20, 2023
NLF Reading Challenge 2022
July, 3, 2022
Fox 11 Los Angeles
October, 13, 2022
Karen Hunter Show
September, 7, 2021
CBS This Morning
August, 4, 2021
The Write Time with Kwame Mbalia, Varian Johnson, Julian Randall, & Cosby Hunt
August, 3, 2021
Scholastic
What the Power of Story Means to Me with author Kwame Mbalia
May 18, 2021
Tattered Cover
Kwame Mbalia & Prince Joel Makonnen in conversation with Tochi Onyebuchi.
May 13, 2021
Mahogany Books
Kwame Mbalia Discusses Tristan Strong Destroys the World at MahoganyBooks
Feb 12, 2021
Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop
Daniel José Older In Conversation with Kwame Mbalia
Feb 2, 2021
2021 Black Ink Book Festival Keynote Address featuring Author Kwame Mbalia
Jan 16, 2021
Moms Don’t Have Time To Read Books
Kwame Mbalia, Tristan Strong Destroys The World
Oct 22, 2020
2020 National Book Festival
Sep 25, 2020
Library of Congress
Rick Interviews Kwame Mbalia
October 1, 2019
Sunday Morning Magazine with Rodney Lear
September 19, 2021
CBC Q with Tom Power
August 5, 2021
Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books
October 22, 2020
Libro.fm
May 14, 2020
Tristan Strong Punches A Hole In The Sky by Kwame Mbalia (Audiobook Excerpt)
May 14, 2020
The Horn Book Inc.
Kwame Mbalia Talks with Roger
August 30, 2024
Publishers Weekly
Cover Reveal: ‘On Again, Awkward Again’ by Kwame Mbalia and Erin Entrada Kelly
August 15, 2024
Publishers Weekly
PW Close-Up: Kwame Mbalia on Launching Freedom Fire
June 7, 2024
School Library Journal
Talking Freedom Fire: A New Imprint with Kwame Mbalia, Tracey Baptiste, and Leah Johnson
February 14, 2024
Time for Kids
My Chat with Kwame Mbalia
August 30, 2022
Catapult
To Write for Middle-Grade Readers is to Write for Elsewhere
April 21, 2022
A Black History Month Conversation with Kwame Mbalia and Roseanne A. Brown
February 24, 2022
Read Riordan
Cover Reveal for TRISTAN STRONG Graphic Novel
October 1, 2021
Washington Post
Bestseller ‘Black Boy Joy’ highlights bright but overlooked moments of Black boyhood
September 21, 2021
Washington Post
‘Black Boy Joy’ brings together 17 stories of positivity
September 21, 2021
New York Times Review
BLACK BOY JOY
August 1, 2021
Kirkus Reviews
BLACK BOY JOY
August 3, 2021
Reading Middle Grade
Kwame Mbalia & Prince Joel Makonnen Interview
May 7, 2021
Scifi Pulse
Kwame Mbalia and Prince Joel Makonnen discuss their novel, “Last Gate of the Emperor,” and Ethiopian culture
May 1, 2021
Library of Congress
Talking with Kwame Mbalia: Folktales, Storytelling, and Gum Baby!
September 9, 2020
The Brown Bookshelf United in Story
February 12, 2020
Kirkus Reviews
Kwame Mbalia Brings Back Tristan Strong
October 18, 2020
Kirkus Reviews
TRISTAN STRONG DESTROYS THE WORLD
October 6, 2020
Kirkus Reviews
TRISTAN STRONG PUNCHES A HOLE IN THE SKY
Oct. 15, 2019
New York Times
A Debut Fantasy Novel Summons the Power of African Myths
Oct. 23, 2019
