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Living Cultures: Maasai Stories – Redress and Resilience (London, UK)

“We’ve had journalists come and go. We’ve had film crews, we’ve had photographers come and go, and we’ve seen how other people tell our story, and now it’s time for us to tell our own story”.

Samwel Nangiria, Maasai leader and participatory video hub leader.

InsightShare, Oakland Institute and Pitt Rivers Museum invite you to join us for an evening of discussion, film screenings and presentations with Maasai Elders and Community leaders from Tanzania and Kenya. We will explore the relationship between museum representations of Maasai culture and present-day struggles over land rights and protection of language and culture.

Living Cultures is a unique collaboration between Pitt Rivers Museum and InsightShare, working for the first time with Maasai communities from Tanzania and Kenya to reclaim the narratives behind the Museum’s collections from the region. Collaborating with museum curators to realign stories, attributions and descriptions of artifacts, the Maasai team will also showcase their powerful videos and discuss how the use participatory video to bring sharply into focus their current land rights campaign.

Confirmed Speakers:

  • Samwel Nangiria – Maasai activist and Director of NGO-Net, Loliondo, Tanzania
  • Yannick Ikayo Ndoinyo, Kuweya Timan Mollel and Francis Shomet Ole Naingisa – Elders and Community Leaders, Loliondo, Tanzania
  • Scholastica Ene Kukutia – Women’s rights activist, Kenya
  • Anuradha Mittal – Executive Director, The Oakland Institute, US
  • Laura van Broekhoven – Director, Pitt Rivers Museum, UK
  • Paulina Feodoroff – Sámi Campaigner, Film and Theatre Artist, Finland
  • Nick Lunch – Director, InsightShare, UK

Supported by:

Pitt Rivers Museum, Staples Trust, Bertha Foundation, Network for Social Change, The Built Environment Trust, The Gentlemen Baristas

mySociety seminar: Parliaments, People and Digital Development (House of Lords, London, UK)

On 21st November mySociety will host a seminar at the House of Lords exploring how digital tools are being used in Sub-Saharan Africa to bring parliaments and citizens closer together. During the seminar, they will launch their Parliaments and the People: Digital Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa report, which presents the findings from an extensive and in-depth research study into digital democracy across Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda. This research explores the use of digital channels and platforms in communicating political information in the region, and considers the implications for future development in digital and institution-building.

The report analyses the breadth of digital political engagement in the countries studied, and identifies key structural and cultural considerations that influence whether digital solutions to improving democratic engagement, transparency and accountability in governing institutions will be successful.

The seminar will bring together researchers, policy makers and practitioners to discuss how the insights from this and other work can be integrated into policy, engagement and future development work.

As capacity is limited, attendance to the event is by invitation only. If you’re interested in attending please email  to request an invite.mySociety seminar: Parliaments, People and Digital Development (House of Lords, London, UK)

1st Africa Social Behavior Change Conference (Nairobi, Kenya)

The Africa Social Behavior Change conference, the first of its kind, seeks to establish a platform that brings together practitioners and stakeholders to showcase theory, effective mechanisms, methodologies, learnings witin the African context. One outcome of the ASBC conference will be a road map of solutions and a shared value proposition to promote a thriving African society. This is in line with the Sustainable Development Goals which work in the spirit of partnership and pragmatism to assist people to make the right choices to improve life in a sustainable way in the decades ahead.  Through the conference, practitioners across sectors will understand the role of social and behavior change in accelerating achievement of such goals.

Why an Africa-specific SBC Conference?

The Africa Social and Behaviour Change Conference (ASBC) is timely for four key reasons;

  1. there have been numerous communication-based initiatives in the development sector across the African continent;
  2. the continent has provided a platform for the implementation of multiple approaches in diverse areas of development: health, governance, education, environment, economy generating great learnings;
  3. systematic study, documentation and sharing has been poor across the African continent and there is need to address and resolve this;
  4. several international SBCC conferences and forums have been held and it is imperative to put their findings into action, share progress and advance the key learnings based on the African context.

TEDxKakumaCamp – livestream from Kakuma Camp, Kenya

TEDxKakumaCamp will be the first TEDx event hosted in a refugee camp, with refugees, and also for refugees. It is curated by Melissa Fleming and Dana Hughes with support from UNHCR and volunteer teams.

TEDxKakumaCamp offers a different lens into the reality of life as a refugee, away from the images of devastation and suffering, and towards stories of resilience, of contribution, of creativity.  Speakers will include current and former Kakuma Camp refugees as well as international experts and artists who wish to make the world a better place for people forced to flee their homes.

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