Where can you watch intelligent discussion about the Internet mixed with performance poetry and the best in book writing alongside snakes and crocodiles? This year’s Nairobi Hay-Storymoja festival, of which Google was one of the main sponsors, took place in the National Museum of Kenya .Ory Okolloh , Google’s head of policy for Africa, with Christian Turner and the British Ambassador to Kenya. Sitawa Namwalie . Her spectacular show, “Cut off My Tongue” , which has been performed in several countries, managed the tough feat of injecting humour into the treatment of difficult issues, such as ethnic violence and corruption.Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans , the extraordinary story of Mao’s brutality told through the lives of three generations of her family. She was giving the first Wangari Maathai Memorial Lecture, in honour of the Kenyan environmental activist and Nobel Laureate who died a year ago.Posted by John Kampfner, External Advisor on Freedom of Expression and Culture Team
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