The Second Edition of the Kenya International Sports Film Festival (KISFF), which ran from 21-24 November 2019 at the Signature Auditorium at the Western Heights Building in Westlands, Nairobi, is an idea whose time has come. It is a necessary and welcome addition to the film festival scene in Kenya, which already has the Human …
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Many Kenyan viewers know Oprah Winfrey for her Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) which continues to makes outstanding TV series largely focused on the lives, successes, challenges, and aspirations of the African American Community in the US. Her current series are: Queen Sugar, Greenleaf, Love and Marriage: Huntsville, Ambitions, Black Women OWN the conversation, The Haves …
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By Karim F Hirji (This essay is a slightly modified version of a paper of the same name published in Pambazuka News (www.pambazuka.org) on 16 April 2019.) You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living. Fernando Flores In February 2019, an Egyptian soccer team …
By Yuri Prasad During the blisteringly hot summer of 1976 a group of Asian workers, predominantly women, walked out on strike at a small factory in north west London. Most were recently arrived migrants from Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya and were as unlikely a group of militants as you were likely to find that year. …
Continue reading Here to stay, here to fight: How Asians transformed the British working class
M G Vassanji was in Kenya primarily to launch his latest book ‘The Magic of Saida’ but also popularise his work among primary, high school children, intellectuals and civil society. He was hosted in Kenya by AwaaZ Magazine (www.awaazmagazine.com) in partnership with Storymoja (www.storymojafrica.com) Attached are the various promotional material for his engagements in Kenya. …
