And Finally, A Celebration Of The Intellect: Hay Festival Returns!

So you like reading? Well if you’re the type to choose to spend your spare time book in hand rather than watching the mumu-tube (television) then this one is right up your alley.

This time round, the good folk at Story Moja have come up with a stellar line-up of both local and international writers who boast impressive literary works in their CVs. Writers such as Jung Chang, author of “Wild Swans”, Dinaw Mengestu, Ethiopian-born American author of “Children of the Revolution”, Giles Foden, Professor of Creative Writing at UEA, UK and author of “The Last King of Scotland”, Precious Williams, author of the memoir “Precious” and ambassador for the charity Africans Unite Against Child Abuse, Billy Kahora, author of “The True Story of David Munyakei” and “Urban Zoning”, Muthoni Garland, author of “Tracking the Scent of My Mother”, “No Violet Bulawayo”, winner of the Caine prize in 2011 for “Hitting Budapest”, Michael Logan, author of “Apocalypse Cow”, which won the Terry Pratchett Prize, Tony Mochama, Chris Lyimo, Sunny Bindra.
This year’s festival sees the first Commonwealth Writers panel debating The Writer and the Reader: Who are Contemporary African Authors Writing For? Jekwu Anyaegbuna (Commonwealth Africa Writers Winner), NoViolet Bulawayo (2011 Caine Prize Winner) and Claudette Oduor and Lauri Kabuitsile from Botswana (2011 Caine Prize nominee) talk to Billy Kahora (managing editor of Kwani and 2012 Caine Prize nominee).

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