There is also our (and ‘my’ if you please) Leni Frau in the ‘Kenya Arts Diary’ 2025, the annual diary of Kenyan artists. Published by the KDA and Godown Arts Centre, it gathers together a roster of artists in the field of figurative art, particularly painting, drawing and photography, and traces their works over the coming year, composing an original and interesting volume that is on the one hand a colour illustrated catalogue, complete with artists' biographies, and on the other a veritable diary.
There are 70 artists, almost all Kenyans to be honest, except for a few foreigners who have been living in Kenya for years, as in the case of Leni, who are showing one of their works, chosen by the diary's editors, which was presented during the group exhibition ‘Kenya Affordable Art’ last weekend at the National Museum in Nairobi.
This year's edition of the art diary, the twelfth in the series, is dedicated to one of the most fervent advocates of this and many other initiatives created to promote and grow Kenyan art, and not just visual art: Margaretta Wa Gacheru, an American art, theatre and literature critic but Kenyan by adoption, who passed away this year and to whom so many Kenyan artists have paid heartfelt and grateful tribute.
So many talented Kenyans were ‘christened’ by Margaretta in the columns of the Nation or Business Daily, where she kept her weekly column until the end: from Richard Onyango to Michael Soi, from Boniface Maina to Michael Armitage, from Wangechi Mutu to Agnes Waruguru, and the youngest and emerging Martin Onditi and Anthony Wanjohi. Names that will be unknown to most, but thanks also to the visibility given by those who, like Margaretta, have made them known, they have received certificates and have succeeded over time in realising their dream, that of living with art.
A dream that obviously does not belong to Maddalena Stefanelli, in art Leni Frau, who continues to be ‘a photographer for passion and also a bit for profession’ as she always says, but who above all enjoys herself.
The Kenya Arts Diary features one of her shots from the matatu series, which had already become a line of beautifully crafted bags by the creative Stefania Livi of Wild Side Boutique.
In the hope that soon this pleasant business card will turn into an exhibition...
The diary can be found in several outlets in Nairobi, Nanyuki and other Kenyan cities at the price of Kes. 1800. 
To order it and find out how to receive it elsewhere, email info@kenyaartsdiary.com