Date: February 16, 2019
Venue: Kenton College, Gichugu – Kileleshwa
Time: 4 pm
Tickets: 1000 Ksh
500 Ksh Concessions | NMS Members
About
Join us for an afternoon of Voices and Instruments featuring Tania Tawk and Lynn Lynn Mutheu Huma in concert with Francis Oludhe-Macgoye on the piano and the Nairobi String Quartet led by David Ralak.
Date: October 9, 2018
Venue: BIEA Seminar Room, Laikipia Road, Kileleshwa
Time: 11 a.m. onwards
The Conversation Africa is a news website – written by academics. Our team of professional editors work with university and research institute experts to unlock their knowledge for use by the wider public.
We have a readership of about million a month. This is both local and international. Our aim is to promote better understanding of research, current affairs and complex issues. And hopefully allow for a better quality of public discourse and conversation.
Moina Spooner, Editor from The Conversation Africa’s Nairobi office, will give a presentation for all interested academics at the British Institute East Africa on October 9th at 11a.m.
More information can be found at www.theconversation.com/africa
Dates: September 24 – October 6, 2018
Venue: BIEA, Kileleshwa
Dates and time: September 22, 2018 from 4PM
Venue: The Roger Owles Hall, Kenton College – Kileleshwa
Tickets (available at the door): 800KSH Adults and 500KSH Children/Students
About
Equatorial Winds is back with another foray into the delightful world of wind quintets, joined for Rimsky Korsakov’s Quintet for Piano and Winds by Hannah Emmrich on piano.It promises to be a very enjoyable concert, though sadly will be the last with leader and flautist, Claire, who returns to the UK at the end of the year following 16 years in Kenya.
If you haven’t heard them before, be sure to make this date in your diaries – September 22nd at 4pm, at Kenton College.
Date: July 25, 2018
Venue: British Institute in Eastern Africa, Kileleshwa
Time: From 5.30pm
About
In Buying Time, Thomas F. McDow synthesizes Indian Ocean, Middle Eastern, and East African studies as well as economic and social history to explain how, in the nineteenth century, credit, mobility, and kinship knit together a vast interconnected Indian Ocean region. That vibrant and enormously influential swath extended from the desert fringes of Arabia to Zanzibar and the Swahili coast and on to the Congo River watershed. In the half century before European colonization, Africans and Arabs from coasts and hinterlands used newfound sources of credit to seek out opportunities, establish new outposts in distant places, and maintain families in a rapidly changing economy. They used temporizing strategies to escape drought in Oman, join ivory caravans in the African interior, and build new settlements. The key to McDow’s analysis is a previously unstudied trove of Arabic business deeds that show complex variations on the financial transactions that underwrote the trade economy across the region. The documents list names, genealogies, statuses, and clan names of a wide variety of people — Africans, Indians, and Arabs; men and women; free and slave — who bought, sold, and mortgaged property. Through unprecedented use of these sources, McDow moves the historical analysis of the Indian Ocean beyond connected port cities to reveal the roles of previously invisible people.
THOMAS F. MCDOW is an assistant professor of history at Ohio State University. He teaches courses on the history of Africa, the Indian Ocean, and the world.
Date: July 13, 2018
Venue: British Institute in Eastern Africa, Kileleshwa
Time: 2.00 – 4.00 pm
About
This PhD project involved over 80 interviews with South Sudanese refugees at Kakuma refugee camp to develop an understanding of all the reasons why people are fleeing South Sudan. For example, people from the same area will leave at different times (e.g. 2016 and 2018). This project tries to unpick why these differences are present, as well as disaggregate conflict, undeniably the major cause of refugee flight. I also investigated why people chose Kenya as a destination, and how information about potential destinations is gained and shared across South Sudan. I hope that by better understanding the reasons for leaving, recommendations for reducing the need for people to leave their country can be developed, as well as early warning tools to prepare humanitarian organisations for new influxes.
Date: June 5, 2018
Venue: BIEA, Laikipia Road – Kileleshwa
Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
From Pews to Politics in Africa and Beyond
Authors: Gwyneth McClendon, New York University and Rachel Beatty Riedl, Northwestern University
More information, available – here
Date and time: 21 May 2018, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Venue: British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Laikipia Road, Kileleshwa
Find more information, here
Dates: May 5-23, 2018
Venue: BIEA, Laikipia Road – Kileleshwa
Opening: April 6, 2018
Venue: BIEA, Laikipia Road – Kileleshwa
Until: May 4, 2018
About
‘IRREPLACEABLE’ is an exhibition celebrating endangered species that are crucial to the continuity of life on planet Earth. He chooses to create this series of collage art to raise public awareness of the threat posed to the animals he’s created by human activities which have been the cause of pollution, climate change, degradation of all eco-systems and finally the potential extinction of not only animals but human beings as well.Artist Biography
Evans Maina Ngure’s first inspiration was his father who showed him how to draw cartoons and cars. He was fortunate to have had art classes up through Kenyatta University where he majored in painting. It was at KU that he was first encouraged to create art using ‘unconventional materials’ which naturally led him to start working with what other people called junk.Today he works with an assortment of found objects, such as zippers, spare parts from cars, buttons and used belts from Gikomba. He continues to ‘paint’ however his canvases are also filled with junk items. He also creating wearable art such jewelry, wind chimes, collages, back packs and purses. But his current exhibition at BIEA focuses on the creation of creatures, both wild and domestic which he designs with more ‘unconventional materials.”
Evans has exhibited all over Nairobi, from the Village Market, Dusit D2 Hotel, Nairobi National Museum, K1 Flea Market, Nairobi Gallery and ISK. His artwork is also available to see on Facebook (evans maina Ngure) and Instagram (Evans Ngure).
