Kenya hosted the International Literary Seminar (ILS) for the first time. The two-week programme which took place between December 6 to 20, was divided into two phases, with the first phase happening in Nairobi and the last in Lamu.
The writing programme emerged from a parent programme called Summer Literary Seminars (SLS) that had been operating from 1998 until it was disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2019.