Dates: July 22-26, 2015
Venue: Kenya National Theatre
Time: Weekdays – 7 pm and Week-ends 3 & 6 pm
Tickets: KES 1000 at the Gate
Seminar: Imagining Social Justice – Images of Obama, Culture & Human Rights in Kenya, Jul. 23 2015 @ BIEA
Imagining Social Justice: Images of Obama, Culture & Human Rights in Kenya presentation by Steve Ouma Akoth
Date: July 23, 2015
Venue: BIEA, Laikipia road Seminar Room
Time: 11.00 am – 12.30pm
Entry: Prior RSVP
About
This project reveals how notions of inclusion and exclusion are mediated through the images of Barack Obama and the politics of patronage in K’Ogelo, Siaya County. It examines the happenings in K’Ogelo after Barack Obama becomes president of the United States as an illustration of how culture and patronage tend to be appropriated in contemporary Kenya to define the meanings and frame the subject of human rights. The Book project explores various spaces and conjunctures where the images of Obama continue to be used in K’Ogelo and among other actors who live on the social margins of Kenya’s cities to give a cogent and systematic reading of both the cultural context and human behavior.
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Mindspeak Forum: Aly-Khan Satchu Hosts US Ambassador – Robert F. Godec, Jun. 13 2015 @ Inter Continental
Date: June 13, 2015
Venue: Inter-Continental Hotel, Nairobi
Time: 9 am for 10-12 Noon
Entrance: Free
Guest Speaker: US Ambassador to Kenya Robert F. Godec