Date: September 26, 2012
Venue: Alliance Francaise Auditorium
Time: 6-7.30pm
Tickets: Advance Kshs 200 & Kshs 250 on the door [0715 003 975]
Hosts: Issac Gabantu & Waigwa Mwaura
Media Roundtable: Elections & Media in Kenya, Sept. 25 2012 @ Alliance
Date: September 25, 2012
Venue: Alliance Francaise Auditorium
Time: 12-2pm
Entry: Free
Topic: Appreciating the role and influence of media on democratization and governance in Kenya
Speakers
1. Dr. Mustafa Y Ali, media practitioner with extensive knowledge and experience in the field of media and the author of “Globalization and the Kenyan Media.” He is currently the Secretary General of the African Council of Religious Leaders
2. Victor Bwire, Deputy Executive Director Media Council of Kenya
3. Jane Godia, media practitioner of long standing and an editor at Africa Women and Child Features Service
4. Hassan Kulundu, Kenya Editors Guild
5. Esther Kamweru, media practitioner of long standing and member FRONT PAGE
Download 25-9-2012 media roundtable topic
Lecture/Book Launch: Can the African Neo-patrimonial State be Developmental? Sept. 21 2012 @ IFRA/BIEA Conference room
Date: September 21, 2012
Venue: IFRA/BIEA Conference room
Time: 1.30-3.30pm
Entry: Free [Reservation required: seminars@ifra-nairobi.net]
Lecture by Prof. Daniel Bach moderated by Dominique Connan
Download Lecture – Can the African neopatrimonial state be developmental – 21 Sept
Roundtable: Region building in Europe and East Africa, Sept. 19 2012 @ IFRA
Date: September 19, 2012
Venue: IFRA
Time: 1.30-4.30pm
Topic: Region building in Europe and East Africa – Old templates vs new scripts?
Presentations by: Prof. Daniel Bach (Emile Durkheim Centre, Sciences Po Bordeaux), Prof. Katumanga Musambayi (UoN) and Dr. Wanyama Masinde (CUEA)
To attend kindly register by sending an email to seminars@ifra-nairobi.net
Profiles
Prof. Daniel Bach is a Director of research of the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) at the Emile Durkheim Centre – for Comparative Political Science and Sociology, University of Bordeaux. He has published on Nigerian federalism, the foreign policies of Nigeria and South Africa, regional organisations and regionalisation processes in Africa, as well as on relations between France, the European Union, China, India and Africa.
Prof. Katumanga Musambayi is a professor in Political Science at University of Nairobi. He is an accomplished scholar in the field of insurgency groups having done his Ph.D work on the RPF and NRM in the 1990s. He has consulted extensively for the AU, IGAD, ICGLR and the UN on security sector reforms in Africa. Katumanga is a well published scholar in both local and international journals.
Dr Wanyama Musinde is Director of the Institute for Regional Integration and Development (IRID)which is based at the CUEA (The Catholic University of Eastern Africa). This Graduate Institute is the continent’s pioneer specialist university institute for research and training in regional integration. Wanyama is also founding Director of the African Integration House/ The East Africa Resource House, a regional integration think-do tank. He has worked as an adviser to governments on strategies and policies for regional integration, including working as Regional Integration Policy and Strategy Adviser to the Kenya Government.
*Entrance to this roundtable is free BUT prior registration is required by sending an email to seminars@ifra-nairobi.net
Editors pick for @Storymoja: British Ambassador to Kenya Dr. Christian Turner – Session at #HayFestKe, Sept. 14 2012 @ National Museum
The British Ambassador to Kenya Dr.Christian Turner will have a session on ‘the cultural and social transformative power of the internet and new technologies’
Date: September 14, 2012
Venue: British Council Court Yard
Time: 11 am
Festival Tickets: Kshs 1000/day and Kshs 1500/season
About
HE Dr. Christian Turner is the recently appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Kenya. This will be his first time at Storymoja Hay Festival
Dr Turner was previously the Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, where he had responsibility for all UK policy and operations in that region. Prior to this he served variously in the British Embassy in Washington, as Private Secretary to the Prime Minister and in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit.
For more information read: http://www.hayfestival.com/p-5327-the-google-platform-ory-okolloh-dr-christian-turner-and-john-kampfner.aspx
Events to look out for @Storymoja #HayFestKe: Freedom of Expression, Sept. 14-16 2012 @ National Museum
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.
Editors picks for @Storymoja #HayFestKe: Wangari Maathai Memorial Lecture & Hay 25, Sept. 15-16 2012 @ National Museum
Wangari Maathai Memorial Lecture
Date: September 15, 2012
Venue: Louis Leakey Auditorium
Time: 3-4pm
The inaugural lecture honoring Kenya’s great Nobel Peace Laureate and Founder of the Green Belt Movement, will be given by Chinese writer and historian Jung Chang.
Jung Chang is the author of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (which the Asian Wall Street Journal called the most read book about China), and Mao: The unknown Story (with Jon Halliday).
Chang won the UK Writers’ Guild Best Non-Fiction in 1992 and Book of the year UK in 1993.
Her books have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 15 million copies.
Hay 25
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Date: September 16, 2012
Venue: BC Courtyard
Time: 3-4pm
Panel: Jung Chang, Giles Foden, Sitawa Namwale, Chief Nyamweya, John Sibi-Okumu and John Kampfner
To celebrate Hay Festival’s 25th anniversary we asked many of the writers we have worked with over the 25 years to pose 25 questions to Hay Festival audiences.
Kampfner chairs this session addressing three of these questions. Interactive, inquisitive and ground-breaking – have your say and post your replies at www.hayfestival.org/hay25
Panel: Snapshot Memories of Mogadishu, Sep 15 2012 @ National Museum
Storymoja Hay Festival Event:
SNAPSHOT MEMORIES OF MOGADISHU: Kenyan writer RASNA WARAH in conversation with Ahmed Jama (ARCI) and Bruno Geddo (UNHCR-Somalia) on the re-birth of Somalia
3 to 4 pm, Saturday, 15 September 2012, National Museum, Museum Hill, Nairobi
Ahmed Jama is a former resident of Mogadishu and Director of the African Resource and Capacity Initiative (ARCI)
Bruno Geddo is the UNHCR representative for Somalia
Rasna Warah is a Daily Nation columnist and co-author of Mogadishu Then and Now: A Pictorial Tribute to Africa’s Most Wounded City.
Media Roundtables: Media and Hate Speech, Aug. 28 2012 @ Alliance
Date: August 28, 2012
Venue: Alliance Francaise Auditorium
Time: 12-2pm
Entry: Free
Topic: Media and Hate Speech
Panel
1. Ms. Milly Wanga, Commissioner of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC)
2. Mutegi Njau, Veteran journalist and Senior Editor at Royal Media Services
3. Mary Ombara, Public Communications Director and Coordinator of the National Steering Committee on Media Content in the Ministry of Information and Communications
4. Wanjiku Mbugua, Veteran journalist and Consultant in Communications, Governance and Gender
About
The discussion will interrogate the preparedness of the media to deal with and/or handle hate speech as we head towards a high stakes watershed election in March 2013
The Creativez Presents: Writing, Books & Publishing, Aug 26 2012 @ iHub
For more information and to sign-up: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4204455640/