Kenyan author, journalist and winner of the Caine Prize. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story "Discovering Home". He is the founding editor of Kwani?, the first literary magazine in East Africa since Transition Magazine. The aim of Kwani? Is to offer a counter image of Africa in the media. Kwani? is also an exponent of the lively, critical online culture in Nairobi.
When it comes to climate change, many systems of control designed around national borders break down: internationally restrictive trade processes and systems of enforcement have little or power in the face of desertification, mass flooding, ...
Shift, Break, Control North:
Discussion with Claudia Kemfert and Lorenz Petersen,
chaired by Harald Welzer Fri, 30.01. - 12:00
Shift, Break, Conrol South:
Discussion with Atteqa Malik, Binyawanga Wainaina and Yasir Husain,
chaired by Rob van Kranenburg Fri, 30.01. - 15:00