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• Thandiswa at the 24th Blankets & Wine, 3rd April

  Posted: March 23, 2011, 9:45 pm by N.W

  BLANKETS & WINE XXIV
  Time: Sunday, April 3 · 1:00pm - 7:00pm
  Location: LEISURE GARDENS, MAMBA VILLAGE
  

  Thandiswa (Image courtesy of Last Fm)

  
  Lulu, the mesmerizing Harry Kimani, the energetic Makadem, and the incredible Thandiswa Mazwai from South Africa. will be the artists gracing the stage at the 24th Blankets & Wine.
  This will be the first time both Lulu and Thandiswa will play at Blankets & Wine
  
  As is the tradition of B&W, pack your picnics/wine/shukas and bring along all your friends and family for incredible an afternoon of music.
  
  
  
  TICKETING INFO:
  Advance tickets at all DORMANS outlets (from thur 3rd): Ksh 1000
  gate price for adults are 1,300 Ksh & Ksh 400 per child ticket
  For online tickets, visit Pesa Pal
  Door charges: Adults: Ksh 1,300. Children over 5years: Ksh 400
  
  

  
  

• Art & Cocktails 2nd April at Caribana Feat Dennis Inkwa

  Posted: March 23, 2011, 9:21 pm by N.W

  
  

• Ayub Ogada in concert: Goethe Institut Nairobi 19th March

  Posted: March 17, 2011, 10:19 pm by N.W

  * AYUB OGADA ** CONCERT * MUZIKI WA KENYA *
  * WHERE: GOETHE-INSTITUTMaendeleo House Monrovia StreetNairobi
  * WHEN: Saturday 19th March 2011 - 6 PM
  * ENTRY: FREEMuziki wa Kenya: Ayub Ogada
  
  Ayub Ogada, a world music legend, has been performing since the late 1970s, and is arguably the best known Kenyan musician internationally. Born in Mombasa to Luo parents, he was educated in the US and in Kenya. He spent his career as a musician in Kenya, then 20 years in London, before coming back to Kenya in 2008.
  
  As a master of the 8-stringed lyre Nyatiti, complemented by his unique voice, Ayub Ogada caused a sensation in world music. He released several albums, the most famous being En Mana Kuoyo which was recorded by Peter Gabriel’s Record Label Real World. Ogada has had his songs featured in a number of prominent feature films such as Buffalo Soldiers, I Dreamed of Africa, and The Constant Gardener. After his return from the UK, Ayub Ogada has concentrated mainly on developing talents in Kenya.
  
  On this evening, Ogada gives a rare solo concert – which is only the 2nd live concert after his return to Kenya - performing his own music: It will simply be his voice, percussions and the trancelike Nyatiti.
  
  Goethe-Institut Nairobi - +254-20-2224640 - prog@nairobi.goethe.org
  
  

  
  

• Women, Action & the Media (WAM) Nairobi : March 20th - 23rd

  Posted: March 2, 2011, 4:10 pm by N.W

  Women, Action & the Media –  WAM Nairobi: is an event series happening next month in the downtown of Kenya’s capital city, where local journalists, foreign correspondents, students, advocates, and other brainy engaged people will talk it up about the intersection of gender and 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?
  
  WAM! Nairobi is part of a global campaign to raise awareness about gender in the media and to create and strengthen relationship between women media-makers across industries.
  
  The 3 day event will start on Sunday, March 20th through to the Wednesday 23rd march at various locations in Nairobi's CBD.
  
  Some of the speakers at the event will be Racheal Gichinga(Kuweni Serious), Angela Wachuka(Kwani Trust) and Rebecca Wanjiku(Ushahidi)
  Who’s invited?
  
  Media producers, journalists, activists, PR strategists, academics, community organizers, feminists, funders and philanthropists, “citizen” media watchdogs, media policy advocates, alternative-network-builders, bloggers, writers, teachers, artists, technology trainers, cartoonists, students …
  
  All you have to do is RSVP as soon as possible to wamnairobi [at] gmail dot com. Space is limited, and registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis, so RSVP today!
  
  They are  also looking for people to live-blog and tweet the programs, so if you’re interested, be sure to let them know.
  
  WAM! Nairobi is also a joint project of Fulbright Fellows Anna Clark (Nairobi) and Jina Moore (Kigali). Anna is a fiction writer and journalist who blogs about literature at Isak. Jina is a freelance journalist who covers Africa.

  
  

• One Day I will Write About This Place - Binyavanga Wainaina writes his Memoir

  Posted: March 2, 2011, 3:32 pm by N.W

  I like to refer to him as the founding father of contemporary Kenyan writing as it is during his tenure as the founding editor of Kwani Trust that writers like Yvonne Owour , Parsalelo Kantai, Muthoni garland and poets like myself, Dennis Inkwa, Grand Master Masese, Micheal Kwambo, Leon Kiptum and many others were discovered through their publications as well as the Kwani open Mic event which still runs upto today.
  
  That was in 2003. He had just won the Caine Prize for his first novel, Discovering Home.
  Since then he has written an essay' How to write about Africa' which became very popular
  
  Binyavanga Wainaina is now currently writing his memoir 'One Day I will Write About This Place' due to be published in August 2011 by Graywolf Press (US) and in November 2011 by Granta Books (UK).
  
  In this vivid and compelling debut memoir, Wainaina takes us through his school days, his mother's religious period, his failed attempt to study in South Africa as a computer programmer, a moving family reunion in Uganda, and his travels around Kenya. The landscape in front of him always claims his main attention, but he also evokes the shifting political scene that unsettles his views on family, tribe, and nationhood.
  
  Read an extract of the memoir here.

  
  

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