Panel Discussion: ‘Social Media: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly,’ Jan. 31 2019 @ Alliance Française Auditorium

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Date: January 31, 2019
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: from 6.30 pm
Entry: Free

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This year’s theme being Facing the Present, the Alliance Française, in partnership with The Elephant (an online platform engaging citizen to reflect, re-member and re-envision their society), will organize a panel discussion on the impact of social media on our society today.

This is what the stellar panel, moderated by Patrick Gathara @gathara, cartoonist, writer, columnist and commentator on Kenya and international affairs, will tackle:

Churchill Otieno @otienoc
Digital Editor, Nation Media Group
Is social media breaking the news and the business of news?

Sam Kamau @thesamkamau
Communications trainer and consultant specializing in social media and political communication
Is social media being weaponized for political gains?

Kennedy Kachwanya @kachwanya
Technology blogger and Chairman, Bloggers Association of Kenya
Did social media kill the blog?

Wandia Njoya @wmnjoya
Commentator on political, social, cultural and gender issues
Social Media: A force for good?

Christine Mungai @chris_mungai
Reflections Curator, The Elephant
Social media: Power or just the illusion of power?

Don’t be left out. Join the conversation. #nightofideas

Nairobi Fiction Writing Workshop with Makena Onjerika – Winner of the 2018 Caine Prize for African Writing, Application by Dec. 15 2018

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Application: by December 15, 2018

Workshop dates: Scheduled for 16 weeks, and starting on January 5, 2019

Venue: YWCA Nairobi
Time: Saturdays – 9 am to 12 noon
Cost: KES 1,500/- per class + 6,000/- refundable deposit

For more details on course + application + scholarship; email Makena at makenaonjerika-at-gmail.com with the subject line NF2W

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Film Screening: A Plastic Ocean, Nov. 13 2018 @ The Alchemist

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A PLASTIC OCEAN
2016 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1h 42m

Craig Leeson discovers a startling amount of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans. Pollution in the world’s oceans and potential solutions are the focus of this documentary.

Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zrn4-FfbXw

When: 13th November from 7:30PM to 9:00PM

Where: The Alchemist

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Chinua Achebe Colloquium – Conversations about Achebe’s Literary Legacy, Sept. 28 2018 @ British Institute in Eastern Africa

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Date: September 28, 2018
Venue: British Institute in Eastern Africa

Conversations about Achebe’s Literary Legacy
–Things Fall Apart: Achebe and Magnum Opus turns 60. ‘Remembering Achebe’s most celebrated work’
–The State of the African State: Politics of Achebe.
–Re-considering the Nobel Prize for Literature. Making the case for Chinua Achebe.
–Leadership, governance and responsibility in African Literature(An appraisal of Achebe, the thinker, essayist socio-cultural critic)

Event: Five Years After Westgate, Sept. 21 2018 @ Rift Valley Institute – Kileleshwa

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Date: September 21, 2018
Venue: Rift Valley Institute, Seminar Room, Laikipia Road – Kileleshwa
Time: 10am – 12.30pm

Speakers: Murithi Mutiga – Researcher, International Crisis Group, Abdullahi Abdille Shahow – Researcher, International Crisis Group, Rashid Abdi – Horn of Africa Project Director, International Crisis Group

Discussant
Martine Zeuthen, Royal United Services Institute

Register, here.