Kwani? Out & About

Kwani? Out & About
Nuruddin Farah in Conversation

Nuruddin Farah in Conversation
6.30pm - 8.30pm
18 April 2013
Louis Leakey Auditorium, Nairobi National Museum
Free entrance by prior registration only. Register here
The Contemporary ‘African Novel’?: Contexts and Possibilities
Date: Saturday 29th September 2012
Time: 2pm - 4pm
Venue: Sarit Centre Expo Hall, Nairobi.
The Kwani? Manuscript Project, Kwani Trust’s new literary prize for African Writing was set up to celebrate the African novel – its adaptability and resilience. Launched in april of this year, the prize called for submission of unpublished manuscripts from across the continent and the Diaspora. The prize was envisaged in an attempt to uncover and promote fresh, original writing that challenges the possibilities of the African novel, and to start a conversation through this writing.
Telling ‘Stories’ In Digital: Online Audiences and Markets

Research, Knowledge, Policy and the Law
Friday 28th September 2012
10 - 11am
Sarit Centre Expo Hall, Nairobi.
Following discussions at iHub in late August and the Storymoja Hay Festival in mid-September, Kwani Trust will hold an event on Friday 28th September, 2012 from 10 - 11am at the 15th Nairobi International Book Fair at Sarit Centre, Nairobi. Panelists will discuss issues of research and knowledge in the online and digital use of creative content, and how national communications policy and legal frameworks are evolving because of the advent of digital and mobile platforms.