Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer who lives in Geneva, Switzerland, where she works as a lawyer. Her short fiction has been published in several literary journals and anthologies. She is currently writing her first novel.

Dayo Forster has lived abroad since she left The Gambia for university at eighteen. Home is currently Nairobi. Her first novel is Reading the Ceiling.

Andrew Njoroge is a photographer and art collector who lives in Nairobi and Amsterdam. He has been a photo-journalist and war correspondent for various media houses in Europe and Africa and is the director of AfricanColours. He is an photographic advisor for the GenerationKenya project.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor lives in Kenya. She is a traveller, occasional corporate camel and has finally renewed her love affair with the entire African space after gallivanting into and squatting in foreign spaces for the past fifteen years.

Wambui Mwangi is a scholar and a writer. She lives in Toronto and in Nairobi, teaches at the University of Toronto, and blogs occasionally on ‘Diary of a Mad Kenyan Woman’. She is the Director of GenerationKenya.

Marika Sherwood is the author of several books, including After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807 and Britain, the Slave Trade and Slavery from 1562 to the 1880s. A new book, The Life and Times of Henry Sylvester Williams, is due out this year.

Muthoni Garland is the author of the novella, Tracking the Scent of My Mother, published by Storymoja. She is based in Nairobi.

Shalini Gidoomal is a Kenya-born journalist and writer. She has worked for a variety of UK national newspapers and magazines including the Independent, GQ and FHM. She is an Editorial Coordinator for GenerationKenya.

Doreen Baingana is the author of Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe, which won a Commonwealth Prize in 2006. She considers Kenya one of her literary homes.

David Coltart is a shadow Justice Minister and Member of Parliament for Bulawayo South, Republic of Zimbabwe.

Binyavanga Wainaina is the Founder Editor of Kwani?, a Kenyan literary magazine. Shalini Gidoomal is a Kenya-born journalist and writer. She has worked for a variety of UK national newspapers and magazines including the Independent, GQ and FHM. She is an Editorial Coordinator for GenerationKenya.

Martin Kimani has previously been a Teaching Fellow at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in Shrivenham, UK and an associate of the Conflict Security and Development Group of King’s College of the University of London, where he is a doctoral candidate.

Jerry Riley has over 30 years experience in photography. His work has appeared in Inuit Art Quarterly, Walrus, New York Times, and Photo District News, amongst others. He is the Creative Director for GenerationKenya.

Andia Kisia is a writer and a playwright.

Jackie Lebo is a writer and photographer based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her work has appeared in Kwani? and the Prague Marathon Art Book. She is currently working on a book on the Kenyan running phenomenon.

Peter Chepkong’a is a writer and photojournalist from Kenya with a keen interest and experience in creative nonfiction, poetry, photography and sports journalism.

Gado is a Tanzania-born cartoonist who is resident in Nairobi, Kenya. His work is collected in two books, Democrazy! and The End of an Error and the Beginning of a New One.

Tolu Ogunlesi is the author of a collection of poetry and a member of the editorial board of African Perspective. In 2007 he won a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg poetry prize. He lives in Lagos.

Muhonjia Khaminwa is a writer whose work has appeared in Transition, Journal of African Travel Writing, Abafazi and Kwani? She survived Hurricane Katrina and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Keguro Macharia is completing his Ph.D. in the United States. He writes nonfiction prose, and has recently been published in Wasafiri.

Simiyu Barasa is a film maker and writer.

Judy Kibinge is a filmmaker, writer and artist. She lives in Nairobi.

Also featuring the work of Chris Ganda, Stephen Derwent Partington, Ayo Bole, Betty Muragori, Rasna Warah, Vivek Mehta, Shailja Patel, Kalundi Serumaga, Alison Ojany Owuor and Robert Njuguna.