July 2026 Author Spotlight<\/p>\n
Dr Anuradha Khoda is a two-time First Prize Penmanship Award-winning author, educator, speaker and passionate advocate for purposeful learning through books. With more than two decades of experience in education, she is dedicated to creating stories and resources that inspire children and adults to discover their identity, values and purpose.<\/p>\n
Her growing body of work includes seventeen published titles spanning children’s literature, personal development and thought leadership. Through her writing, Dr Khoda seeks to nurture confident readers, curious minds and compassionate future leaders.<\/p>\n
In 2025, her acclaimed book The Power of Purpose<\/em> received the First Prize in the Adult Reader Category at the Penmanship Awards. More recently, in 2026, her children’s title Noah and the Rainbow Promise<\/em> was honoured with the First Prize in the Children’s (0-12 Years) Category, recognising its meaningful contribution to children’s literature and values-based storytelling.<\/p>\n As the founder of Manabi Press, Dr Khoda is committed to producing high-quality books that encourage reading, strengthen character, celebrate culture and help young people grow with confidence and purpose.<\/p>\n Today, she is delighted to share her stories with young readers at the Kenya National Library and hopes that every child leaves inspired to read more, dream bigger and perhaps one day write a story of their own.<\/p>\n Meet the award-winning author, educator and founder of Manabi Press featured for National Reading Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knls.ac.ke\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knls.ac.ke\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knls.ac.ke\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knls.ac.ke\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knls.ac.ke\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.knls.ac.ke\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knls.ac.ke\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knls.ac.ke\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knls.ac.ke\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knls.ac.ke\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}