Festivals and Films

Africities exhibitions.

From 11 Sep 2006 to 29 Sep 2006

12-30 Sept 2006. Alliance Franaise presents two exhibitions to coincide with the Africities summit in Nairobi 18-22 Sept. The first, titled Image-in the MDGs, is a display of photographs by and for young people living in Mathare, the Kenyan capitals third largest slum. The title of the exhibition, a Mathare Youth Sports Association and UN-HABITAT collaboration, refers to the purpose of the international summit: to look at how to achieve the United Nations millennium development goals (MDGs) in local government. The second is a poster exhibition entitled Feeding towns in the South, which looks at the challenges presented by the rapid expansion of cities in the developing world with a special focus on Hanoi, Belem, Yaound and Dakar.