Nuruddin Farah and Binyavanga Wainaina in conversation

On 18 April, the Rift Valley Institute's (www.riftvalley.net) Nairobi Forum, in partnership with Kwani Trust (www.kwani.org), hosted an evening with renowned Somali author Nuruddin Farah. Nuruddin is winner of the Neustadt International Prize for literature and the Lettre Ulysses Award, and has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. His body of work includes two trilogies, Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship (1980) and Blood in the Sun (1986). His most recent novel, Crossbones, was published in 2011. Nuruddin was in conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina, the founder of Kwani Trust and author of the acclaimed memoir One Day I Will Write About This Place.

[@abdirizaknoohibrahim1439]

Full Respect Mr Nuradin Farah dirie

[@SayyidAhmedKhalif]

It is Dr. Nuruddin Farah Hassan.

[@zeldasmith6154]

I'm trying to get the pronunciation of his first name. I was hoping I would hear it here. Honestly, I never heard of him but I want to read his work because he apparently writes about women in a human way which is rare .

[@SLEEPY0088]

Oh my goodness in somalia there are people like him

[@درشالباشا]

In any country of the there are a great people and he is one of the great people of world.

[@tesfuweldemikael2902]

Indeed he is. I'm reading more of his novels at the moment.

[@hassanabdulahi2593]

what an amazing man !

[@PacificBruva]

well versed man