Book & Film Presentation with Dr. Auma Obama at Goethe-Institut

Date: Thursday May 9, 2013
Venue: Goethe Institut Auditorium
Time: 6 pm
Free entry

Dr. Auma Obama, US President Obama's half-sister, will participate in a discussion of her new memoir, "And Then Life Happens". This will be followed by the screening of a documentary film about her life "The Education of Auma Obama" (directed by Branwen Okpako, 2011).

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Public Lecture on Art & National Healing @Raira University

There will be a public lecture on Art and National Healing: Designing the Constitutional Court of South Africa after apartheid at the Riara University on Thursday, December 13th 2012.
Time: 3-5 pm
Presentation by Celebrated human rights activist and former South Africa Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs  

Public Lecture by Ford Foundation President @ UON

The University of Nairobi invites all to a public lecture by Ford Foundation President Luis A. Ubinas who will be reflecting on five decades of progress, opportunities and challenges in Eastern Africa.

Dubbed 'Fulfilling The Promise of Democracy in Kenya', the lecture will be held on Monday, 12 November 2012 at 2:00pm in Taifa Hall, University of Nairobi.

Sunday Live's Host Julie Gichuru will moderate the lecture.

Wangari Maathai Lecture slated for Saturday

“Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care of itself. There are so many enemies of trees.” – Wangari Maathai

The inaugural lecture in honor of the late Kenyan Nobel peace Laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, will be given by Chinese-British writer Jung Chang at the Louis Leakey Auditorium on Saturday, September 15.

Chang is the author of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Described by the Asian Wall Street Journal as the most read book about China), and Mao: The Unknown Story (with Jon Halliday).

She has won the UK Writer’s Guild Best Non-Fiction in 1992 and Book of the Year UK in 1993. Her books have been translated into over 40 languages and sold more than 15 million copies worldwide.

The lecture runs from 3 to 4pm.  

The late environmental and political activist who become the first woman in Central and Eastern Africa to hold a Ph.D. besides being the first African Woman to the Nobel Peace Prize, died last September of cancer.

I will be a hummingbird

Public Lecture on Rebooting Africa: Innovation for Development

There will be a public lecture on Rebooting African innovation for development by Prof. Calestous Juma this coming Tuesday, 14 August 2012 at 2 PM at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC).

Who is Prof. Calestous Juma?

He is a Kenyan Professor of the Practice of International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School and Director of the Belfer Center’s Science, Technology, and Globalization Project. He holds a Ph.D. in science and technology policy studies and has written widely on science, technology, and the environment.  

Juma is also a former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and Founding Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies. He was recently appointed to co-chair the new AU panel on science, technology, and innovation.

More on Juma and his work http://www.belfercenter.org/global

Invitation to Micere Mugo Public Lecture/ Book Launch

Prof. Micere Mugo is today having a public lecture at the University of Nairobi hosted by its Department of Literature & African Women Studies.

Micere will also be launching her book: ‘From the Heart of my Mind – The Story of our Journey’. It will start at 2pm in the MPH (8-4-4 building), University of Nairobi.

In attendance will be Hon. Martha Karua (Member of Parliament for Gichugu Constituency).