There are many different ways in which writers' freedom to express
oneself can be inhibited by different political systems.

In this event, two leading writers discuss suffering as well as everyday life in the country they identify closely with. Aminatta Forna's father was an opposition politician assassinated in Sierra Leone, while Wendy Law-Yone's father was the founder of the leading daily the Rangoon Nation in Burma. Here, they discuss the vital power of the 'free word'.