A panel discussion moderated by Kwani Trust's Managing Editor Billy Kahora will convene at 5.45pm. Billy will moderate a conversation with Patrick Gathara, Boniface Mwangi & Jackie Lebo  focused on their work on the recently concluded March 2013 Kenyan General Elections; 

Patrick Gathara is a strategic communications consultant with the African Union Mission in Somalia who moonlights as a writer, researcher, event organiser, web and graphic designer and political cartoonist. He blogs about Kenyan and international politics and current affairs at www.gathara.blogspot.com

Jackie Lebo is a writer, producer and photographer and serves as the Team Lead at Content House. She has been researching on Kenyan running for the past six years. In 2012 she produced the documentary Gun to Tape, a film following the Kenyan athletes David Rudisha and Edna Kiplagat in the run-up to the London Olympic Games. She also served as curator for a photo exhibition titled Kenya’s Olympic Journey. Her book on Kenyan running will be published in 2014. Jackie’s writing has appeared in the Financial Times, the East African, The Africa Report,  Kwani?, Chimurenga, The Caine Prize Anthology, Marathonguide.com, Sport and Development online and the Prague International Marathon book. Jackie’s photographs have appeared in The Africa Report, 10tal, a Swedish literary and cultural journal, Farafina, a leading Nigeria literary journal, and she was associate editor and photographer for the 24 Nairobi, a project that brought together 16 writers and photographers for a new perspective on an African city

Boniface Mwangi is an award-winning Kenyan photographer. For four years he held a staff photography position at The Standard, taking on various assignments of increasing responsibility in a number of countries. Boniface became the eye of Kenyans during the 2007 post-election violence and showed courage and compassion to capture thousands of images, some of which were published by Kwani Trust in the 'Kenya Burning' collection. Following the political resolution to the election crisis, Boniface started to see himself as a visual artist, using photography as the vehicle for social change in Kenya. His focus was the fight against the impunity of politicians in the face of over 1000 dead and half a million people displaced as a result of the violence they caused. Boniface has continued to work as a freelance photographer for Bloomberg, the AFP, Reuters, the Boston Globe, and other media outlets while building a movement for social change in Kenya through Picha Mtaani  (Swahili for street exhibition). Boniface founded Pawa254 as a collaborative hub where journalists, artists and activists could meet to find innovative ways of achieving social change. Boniface's work has appeared in The New York Times , The Guardian, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Boston Globe BBC Focus on Africa magazine, among other international publications. He has been recognized as a Magnum Photography Fellow, TED Global Fellow, Acumen Fund East Africa Fellow, and twice as the CNN Multichoice Africa Photojournalist of the Year, among other awards. Boniface lives in Nairobi with his wife and three children

Nadifa Mohamed, the Somali-British author, will be speaking about her writing and her Somali homeland.  Born in Hargeisa and raised in South London, Nadifa's first novel, Black Mamba Boy(2010), was inspired by the life of her father who was forced to leave Somalia and set out on an odyssey that took him to the UK. Identified by Granta as one of the best of young British novelists, Nadifa's novel was described by one reviewer as a book of "elegance and beauty". It won the Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for numerous other prizes.  Nadifa's new novel, The Orchard of Lost Souls, will be published in August 2013. It describes the fall of the Somali state through the lives of three women.