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The Google Platform: Ory Okolloh, Dr Christian Turner and John Kampfner

Google’s head of Policy and Government Relations, Africa and the Freedom of Expression advocate discuss the cultural and social transformative power of the internet and new technologies. They are joined by Dr Christian Turner, former Director of the Middle East and North Africa in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Dr Turner is now British High Commissioner to Kenya.

In Association with Google

John Kampfner, Lauri Kubuitsile, Lawrence Njagi

Content and Technology; digitisation, e-publishing and innovation

What’s the future for writing and publishing in a time of digital delivery? A revolution of access and empowerment or the collapse of the industry? Or both/neither?

In Association with Google and Kwani?

AKAs and the Shidas

Booklaunch

Muthoni Garland is joined by the Kenya Human Rights Commission.

Giles Foden talks to John Sibi-Okumu

The author discusses his novels Zanzibar, Ladysmith and his award-winning Idi Amin novel The Last King of Scotland.

Supported by British Council

The Writer and the Reader: Who are contemporary African authors writing for?

2012 Commonwealth Short Story Prize regional winner, Africa Jekwu Anyaegbuna, (Nigeria) 2011 Caine Prize Winner, NoViolet Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) Caine Prize-nominated Lauri Kubustile (Botswana) and writer Claudette Oduor (Kenya) talk to Kwani Managing Editor and 2012 Commonwealth Short Story Prize judge, Billy Kahora (Kenya).

In Association with Commonwealth Writers, www.commonwealthwriters.org

Jung Chang

Wangari Maathai Memorial Lecture

Sponsored by Dormans Coffee, KHE, Harris Tea and Sainsbury’s

Cut off My Tongue

Having toured in Kenya, Uganda and the UK, this fiercely provocative show will leave you speechless! It rants, sweats, bellows and breaks into song and dance as it explores the truths that shape modern Africans. The show is about our beliefs, the way we behave and why. Woven into music and dance, Sitawa Namwalie's dramatised poetry is moving and frighteningly honest. It is politics -- and love -- that bites as it teases! Tickets 2000/=

Growing up different: Precious Williams, Lemn Sissay and Ross Van Horn

What’s your idea of a normal childhood? What kind of childhood makes a writer? These festival authors who grew up in mulit-racial backgrounds, juggle notions of adversity and security, loneliness and independence, fantasy and reality.

Supported by the British Council and Van Horn Consulting

Peeling back the Mask - The Man who became Miguna Miguna

The book that took Kenya by storm; Miguna Miguna himself addresses the controversy behind his book.