Quartz’s Africa Innovators Summit returns to Nairobi

Quartz’s Africa Innovators Summit returns to Nairobi, Kenya on Wednesday, July 20th to celebrate the thought leaders and entrepreneurs innovating across the continent.

The event’s honorees and speakers this year include: Wanjiru "Ciiru" Waweru, founder and CEO of FunKidz Limited, Kenya; Smockey (Serge Bambara), hip-hop artist and co-founder of Le Balai Citoyen (The Citizen Broom), Burkina Faso; Matsi Modise, managing director of SiMODiSA, South Africa; Wanuri Kahiu, award-winning film director and science fiction writer, Kenya; Wilfred Ndifon, scientist and founder, International Institute of Computational and Systems Immunology, Cameroon and Winnifred Selby, co-founder of Afrocentric Bamboo, Ghana.

He summit will take place at Radisson Blu Hotel, Nairobi. It will be a gathering on economic and political eggheads in the continent and beyond.