This is a workshop offering digital teaching tools run by Ukombozi Library, a Kenyan archive of progressive media. The session will be based on Africa is a Country’s “Revolutionary Papers”, a year long series on the archival remnants of African and black diaspora anti-colonial movement materials to retrieve a politics and pedagogy that challenge the contemporary cooptation of radical histories.
Supported by Africa is a Country
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A creative writing session with Ayanna Lloyd Banwo on how to infuse your writing with specificity drawn from lived experience interwoven with research and imagination.
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago. Her debut novel When We Were Birds was the 2023 winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award, the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, and the American Book Award. It was also shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize and the McKitterick Prize and named one of the UK Observer’s Best Debuts and The Economist’s Best Books of 2022.
Her short fiction and non-fiction have been published in Moko Magazine, Small Axe and PREE, among others and shortlisted for the Small Axe Literary Competition and the Wasafiri New Writing Prize. She is the 2023 winner of the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award and was named a 2024 Rising Star in UK writing by The National Centre for Writing and The British Council.
Supported by the British Council’s UK/Kenya Season 2025.
Learn where to look within to re-language personal experiences and harness joy, pain and despair at world events into poetry with Momtaza Mehri.
Momtaza Mehri is a British-Somali poet, essayist, editor, and researcher. She is a former Young People’s Poet Laureate for London and winner of the 2019 Manchester Writing Prize. Her writing has featured in the Guardian, POETRY, Granta, Wasafiri, Bidoun, The White Review and on BBC Radio 4.
She works across criticism, translation, anti-disciplinary research practices, education and radio. Her poetry collection, Bad Diaspora Poems is the winner of an Eric Gregory Award and the 2023 Forward Prize for Best First Collection.
Supported by the British Council’s UK/Kenya Season 2025.
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Step into a hands-on zine-making adventure where scissors are sacred, glue is bold, and the mess is half the magic. This isn’t just a workshop, it's a creative playground run by Ethiopian artist, Tizzita Teffera where you’ll cut, paste, layer, scribble, question, and collage your way into self-expression. Zines; punky, poetic, political are made for anyone with something to say. You’ll dive into a delicious mix of images, textures, words, and wildness, using everything from the mundane to the mystical to create something personal, radical, or just plain weird.
Whether you're into memory, myth, rebellion, or ritual, there's space for it here. Expect a little history on punk publishing & zines, a lot of experimentation, and a co-created space full of curiosity, wonder, and joyful chaos. You’ll leave with something that reflects you in fragments, folds, and gluey fingerprints.
No experience needed. Just bring an open heart, curious hands, and a willingness to play.
Tizzita Teffera is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist whose work explores ritual, mythology, memory, shame, and the shadow self. Weaving together Ethiopian and Kenyan cultural influences, she uses poetry, print, photography, and found materials including archival images to navigate themes of femininity, healing, and personal myth. Her work exists at the intersection of the seen and unseen, always in conversation with transformation.
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The Craft of Photojournalism: A Journey from Sight to Insight
By Luis Tato
Are you interested in photojournalism, whether as a passion or a career path? Don’t miss this interactive two-hour masterclass with Luis Tato, Chief Photographer and Photo Coordinator for East Africa and the Indian Ocean at Agence France-Presse.
Tato is also the winner of the 2021 and 2025 World Press Photo contest. Gain insights from his years of experience behind the lens and learn about the work that goes on in the photo department of one of the world’s largest international news agencies.
Luis Tato has a degree in audiovisual communication and began his career covering Spain’s Financial Crisis for print media, news agencies and several NGOs. He then became a regular contributor to the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia covering daily news and sports. Later, he combined his work covering mainly East Africa as a stringer for Agence France-Presse and other international publications while developing his own photojournalism projects with a focus on sociology, identity and resilience. Tato has gained numerous honours including the Rémi Ochlik Award and Picture of the Year International awards among others.
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2024 Independent Podcast of the Year winners, Chinny Ukata and Astrid Madimba of “It’s a Continent” podcast bring their expertise in broadcasting in a session focused on how to achieve longevity and stay fresh on the microphone.
Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata are hosts of It’s a Continent, a podcast celebrating Africa’s diverse past and present, and authors of the book of the same name, highlighting the consequences of colonialism and how this legacy reverberates today.
With the support of Open Society Foundations, South to North series.
For the little ones, we kick off with an immersion in stories! Featuring a selection of 200 beautiful brand-new books specially selected to help young learners and their teachers learn and discover the joy of reading. With guidance from master storyteller, Orpah Agunda, adventures come alive.
With support from Book Aid International.
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Follow an exciting adventure in a land where magic is forbidden and Ebony, a young witch sets out to defeat the evil queen and free magic once more, but her path is filled with terrible dangers, new friends and new loves. Will Ebony succeed or fall to dragon fire?
Don’t miss this interactive reading session with Venna Odhiambo and Velia Vidal. These authors will share their original children and young adult works with our young audiences.
With support from Book Aid International.
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