SATURDAY 11AM KANGA TENT

Linda Musita, Nduta Waweru, Ruth Kenyah, Wanjeri Gakuru

Storymoja Hay Festival Writing Fellows

The four Storymoja Hay Festival Writing Fellows for 2012/14 show off their work and talk about being mentored by Caine Prize-nominated Kenyan writer Lily Mabura, over the last year. They read from their work, and share insights about the impact of female voices in Kenyan literature.

SATURDAY 11AM FORD HALL

Première Film Screenings

The Global Seminar

Documentary Filmmaking in Kenya: The Art of Science Storytelling

Film screenings of The Matriarch, Curse of the Gazelle King, Nature’s Nurturers, Re-alignments: A Zebra’s Story, The Lost Boys of Laikipia. Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers; Muhinza Bushoki, Kevin Midigo, Loise Njagi, Maryanne Wangui Njuguna, Victor Oloo and teaching assistant Karim Kara.

Presented by Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Princeton Atelier &the Program in Visual Arts of the Lewis Center for the Arts, & by the Princeton Environmental Institute.

SATURDAY 11AM STORYMOJA AMPHITHEATRE

Warsan Shire, Dr Neal Hall, Mongane Wally Serote and Njeri Wangari

Voicing The Unspoken

Warsan Shire (Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth) won the Brunel University African Poetry Prize. Dr. Neal Hall (Nigger for Life) has won over 10 prizes for poetry in book festivals around the world. Mongane Wally Serote (Yakhal’Inkomo) has won theIngrid Jonker Poetry Prize, the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa and was a Fulbright Scholar. These multiple-award-winning poets read from their work and talk to Kenyan Poet, Njeri Wangari (Mines and Mindfields) about asylum, war, love, loss, borders, insanity, race, identity and inequality.

In association with the African Poetry Book Fund and The South African High Commission