🥁🥁🥁A win for Karura Forest! Today, the Environment & Land Court at Milimani issued conservatory orders to stop the excision of 51.64 acres of Karura Forest to expand Kiambu Road. The case will be heard on 3rd Feb 2025. Let us keep fighting for our forests! #SaveKarura 🌳

"I should be able to drive in the bus lane, it's always empty." 😤

Our values & priorities are revealed in thousands of small but important details in our city design, deliberate decisions that have prioritized cars over people for decades. It will take equally deliberate decisions to change to cities for people. HT Dutch cartoon by Verwey, 1980

It has been a remarkable year for Green Belt Movement working with like minded partners & stakeholders to strive for better environmental management, community empowerment & livelihood improvement. Catch it all in our latest newsletter👉bit.ly/GBMNewsletter #ClimateChange

SBM Bank approached me to create an artwork for them to use on the window panels outside their branch. This artwork is special to me because it captured their personality in a unique visual way.. Check out the full creative process here: behance.net/gallery/216147…

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This #MulikaMjengoMondays, we discuss: The Role of Whistleblowing in Development Control Whistleblowing plays a crucial role in development control by exposing illegal, unethical, rogue, and unsafe construction practices. In a sector where rampant non-compliance has resulted in

My new Maua Collection, fully handmade

Join us this Saturday, March 15 2 pm at The GoDown, Kayahwe Rd, for the opening of Dadaab Commons—an exhibition that reflects the architectures and ecologies of Dadaab, which open onto knowledges common to us all.

Come experience the works and insights of AbdulFatah Adam, Cave Bureau, Deqa Abshir, Elsa MH Mäki, James Muriuki, Peterson Kamwathi, and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor tomorrow, Saturday, March 15, at 2 p.m. at The GoDown, Kayahwe Rd.

Graduated University of Oxford with an MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance. Best part was writing on UTA-Do African Cities Workshop Dissertation: “The Story of UTA-Do: A Rose, a Black Sense of Academic Place and Orientation Towards Africa Urban Praxis” Snippet, table of contents 😉

Photos from the opening of Dadaab Commons, exhibition by AbdulFatah Adam, Cave Bureau, Deqa Abshir, Elsa MH Mäki, James Muriuki, Peterson Kamwathi, and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, curated by guest curator Prof. Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi in collaboration with The GoDown.

Dadaab Commons is open until 31 March 2025. Come experience reflections of the architectures and ecologies of Dadaab. Entry is free!

This is an awesome staircase

Another #UTADoSpecial 🥳🥳🥳 It was great to reconnect with SemharHaile during the opening of the #DadaabCommons exhibition at GoDown Arts Centre. It was great to catch up after meeting during the UTA-Do African Cities Workshop 2024 workshop in Dar-es Salaam. #SouthernUrbanism #CultureAndCities

As we continue our journey, we find ourselves facing a challenge: while stories from some countries are easy to find, for many others, they feel almost impossible to find. Please share recommendations of short stories by authors from countries not yet on our list!

It would’ve been great if Kenyatta did something about this over the ten years that he was president instead of presiding over grand theft and incompetence. You don’t get to sound like a sophomore in a postcolonial theory seminar with that record.

Nairobi! Together with Transform, we are calling on young creatives aged 23 - 35 yrs to participate in transforming Dunga Rd into a vibrant public space to complement the redevelopment of The GoDown. Register here to be part of the kick-off hangout: bit.ly/dunga-nairobi

Call for Young Creatives! Are you a young artist aged between 23 & 35? Making Space: Inside, Outside, a partnership between us & Transform, is calling you to be part of Twende Dunga Road, a street renewal project aiming to transform Dunga Road into a vibrant public space.

In patnership with Transform, The GoDown is calling on young creatives aged 23 - 35 years to join Making Space: Inside, Outside 🧵