Artist Presentation: Jide Adeniyi-Jones, Mar. 15 2011 @ Kuona Trust

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Kuona Trust
Centre for visual arts in Kenya

Invites you to an artist presentation by Jide Adeniyi-Jones

Nigerian photographer Jide Adeniyi-Jones has been in professional photography practice since 1973, with experience in the civic service, private media, advertising, fashion, editorial and documentary photography in Africa, Europe and the United States.

Currently his work is divided between commissioned assignments usually of development issues and self assigned long-term photographic documentation.

He will facilitate an interactive discussion about artistic practice (with emphasis on photography as a medium) with the creative community in Nairobi.

Date: March 15, 2011
Venue: Centre for visual arts, Kuona Trust
Time: 2.30pm
Entry: Free

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Public Lecture: International Environmental Governance-Something New Under the Sun, Mar. 15 2011 @ U.O.N.

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Notice is hereby given of an Academic Public Lecture in the series of Distinguished Lectures on Environmental Governance organised by the Centre for Advanced Studies in Environmental Law and Policy (CASELAP)

The Second Lecture in the series will be presented by:

Prof. Dr. Frank Maes
Department of Public International Law
Faculty of Law
University of Ghent
Belgium

Topic: International Environment Governance: Something New Under the Sun

Date: March 15, 2011
Time: 2.30pm
Venue: Confucius Centre, Conference Centre. 2nd Floor Education Building. University of Nairobi
Entry: Free

Book Reading: Das Leben kommt immer dazwischen (autobiography by Dr. Auma Obama), Mar. 31 2011 @ Goethe

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Goethe Institut invites you to a public reading of an autobiography by Dr. Auma Obama

Date: March 31, 2011
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: 6pm
Entry: Free

Auma Obama, Barack Obama‘s sister, has written her autobiography.
She has written it in German and the book has just been launched in Germany. Although it is yet to be published in English, this evening will provide the first opportunity to experience the book in English language.

Dr. Auma Obama left Kenya for Germany as a young girl and lived there for the next 16 years. She studied German at the University of Heidelberg, Film Production at the German Film and TV Academy in Berlin and later proceeded for graduate Studies at the University of Bayreuth, which awarded her a PhD in 1996. After Germany, she moved on to live in England, traveling severally to the USA following the rise to fame of her brother, and returned to Kenya in 2007 where she now works and lives.

In her autobiography, Auma Obama retraces this path of a life between different worlds and cultures. She narrates how a consciousness for her African identity developed on this journey. She gives a vivid picture of the history of the Obama family in Kenya and the life of her father Barrack Hussein Obama. And how she has accompanied her brother on his way to becoming the 44th president of the USA.

Dr. Auma Obama will be reading excerpts from the book in German and in English.

Public Lecture: Economic & Social Council as an Instrument for Effective Policy Formulation & Consensus Finding, Mar. 9 2011 @ U.o.N

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UNDESA, National Economic & Social Council and AICESIS invite you to a public lecture

Date: March 9, 2011
Venue: University of Nairobi, Main Campus, Lecture Theatre Room ED II
Theme: Economic & Social Council as an Instrument for effective policy formulation and consensus finding
Guest Speaker: Dr. Ulrich Graute, Senior Advisor-Division for Public Administration and Management Development at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
Participants: Faculty members, postgraduate students and fourth year undergraduate students in Humanities
Entry: Free

Event: Women Action and Media (WAM) Nairobi, Mar. 20-23 @ various

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Women Action and the Media (WAM) Nairobi is calling all creative women to join them on

Dates: March 20-23, 2011
Venues: various in Nairobi
Entry Requirements:RSVP, email [wamnairobi [at] gmail dot com]

WAM Nairobi will be discussing some of the big questions facing women and girls in media: What are the barriers for the full participation of female journalists in East African media?
How are stories of women and girls in Kenya told (or not told) in the international press? Whose voices “matter”?

March 20, 2011
Venue: Downtown pub
Time 6pm
Entry: RSVP

Date: March 21, 2011

Venue: Nairobi Java House
Time: 1-4pm
Topic: Getting Women and Girls on the Front Page
A drop-in workshop for activists, advocates and other movers and shakers to learn strategies for winning the interest of local and international journalists — and helping them focus on the information that matters.
We’ll be at Nairobi Java House (Mama Ngina Street) from 1-4 p.m. Stop on by! (We’d appreciate a heads up to let us know your coming by [wamnairobi@gmail.com], but it’s not required.

Venue: Goethe-Institut library
Time: 6-8pm
Topic: My Africa, Your Africa
A dialogue between local and foreign journalists about the differences in their coverage

Venue: Goethe-Institut library
Time: 6-8pm
Topic: At the Source
Raising local voices across media, where citizen journalists, literary artists, and social media experts describe breaking new ground for news in Kenya

Date: March 22, 2011
Venue: Goethe-Institut library
Time: 6-8pm
Topic: Women’s Voices in a Man’s World
Journalists and other media-makers will discuss dealing with gender gaps, glass ceilings and other perils of being female in the media world.
Topic: The Spot Pitch
Winning coverage for women and girls in 120 seconds. Ten advocates and activists will get 2 minutes each to sell the audience on their most irresistible story about the issues facing women and girls.

For more info: WAM Nairobi blog

Public Lecture: East & Sub-Sahara Africa-Coming New Era, Mar. 10 2011 @ Embassy of Japan

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Speaker: Mr. Katsumi Hirano-Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO), Japan

Date: March 10, 2011
Venue: Embassy of Japan
Location: Mara Road, Upper Hill, Nairobi
Time: 1300-1430hrs
Entry: Free
Tel: (020) 2898510-2

As African affairs will become a global matter of concern, the expanding regional economy of East Asia definitely needs more vibrant collaboration with the African counterpart.
The lecture will focus on such a perspective by explaining the recent development of economic relations between Africa and Asia including Japan, while touching on Japan’s ‘New Growth Strategy’.

Media Round Table: Media and Politics, Feb. 22 2011 @ Alliance

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Media Focus on Africa Foundation, UoN School of Journalism, The Media Institute and Kenya Editors Guild
Invites you to the Monthly Media Round Table

Topic: Media and Politics

Discussion Panel:
Njeri Kabeberi-Centre for Multiparty Democracy
Ann Njogu-CREAW
Barrack Muluka-Media Consultant
Dr. Tom Odhiambo-Lecturer UoN

Moderator-Kwamchetsi Makoha-Media Council

Date: February 22, 2011
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: 12-2pm
Entry: Free

*Supported by the Netherlands Embassy.

Public Lecture: Obama’s Revolution-What lessons for Africa, Feb. 22 2011 @ Taifa Hall, UoN

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Public Lecture: Obama’s Revolution: What lessons for Africa by Prof. Horace Campbell, author of recently published “Barack Obama and 21st century politics”

Respondents: Tom Maliti, political analyst and Njoki Njehu, Director, Daughters of Mumbi Global Resource

Moderator: Hakima Abbas

Date: February 22, 2011
Venue: University of Nairobi, Taifa Hall
Time: 5.30 – 7.30pm
Entry: Free

Prof. Horace Campbell has authored the following books;
1.Rasta and Resistance From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney
2. Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation
3. Pan Africanists and African Liberation in the 21st century

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