Events to look out for @Storymoja #HayFestKe: Freedom of Expression, Sept. 14-16 2012 @ National Museum

September 10, 2012 at 3:30 pm Leave a comment


The Google Platform
Date: September 14, 2012
Venue: Louis Leakey Auditorium
Time: 11am

Ory Okolloh, Google’s head of policy and Government Relations, Africa, and John Kampfner, British Journalist and Freedom of Expression advocate discuss the cultural and social transformative power of the internet and new technologies.

They will be 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.

Apocalypse Cow
Date: September 15, 2012
Venue: Storymoja Amphitheatre
Time: 5-6pm

Scottish novelist and journalist, Michael Logan, talks about his first book Apocalypse Cow, which won the Terry Pratchet award ‘Anywhere But Here, Anywhere But Now Prize’.

Peeling Back the Mask
Date: September 16, 2012
Venue: Louis Leakey Auditorium
Time: 3-4pm

Lawyer and political analyst, Miguna Miguna, discusses the controversial, bestselling memoir that has taken Kenya by storm.

Also, don’t forget that the best second hand book sale continues at the Nairobi national Museum during the StoryMoja Hay Festival
Thursday 13 –  Sunday 16 September 2012, 10am – 4pm on all days.

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Editors picks for @Storymoja #HayFestKe: Wangari Maathai Memorial Lecture & Hay 25, Sept. 15-16 2012 @ National Museum Exhibition: Come Baby Come – An Exhibition of paintings by Michael Soi, Sept 10-30 2012 @ National Museum’s Creativity Gallery

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