"Crossing Boundaries: Women In Informal Sector and The Quest For Space Justice" - A Presentation to be held at the British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi

Thursday, 12th January 2012, 3.00pm – 4.30pm

Presenter:Dr Mary Kinyanjui - Senior Research Fellow Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi
Chair: Prof. Patrick Adero Alila - Research Professor, IDS University of Nairobi

Nairobi city harbours formal; informal; indigenous; modern; rich; poor; local and global spaces where goods and services are largely supplied by informal economy actors. In 2006, 1.7 million people worked in the informal economy and in 2010 the number had grown to 2.2 million people. Of the over two million people engaged in Nairobi’s informal economy, about 68% of them are women. Women in the informal economy cross boundaries defined first, by their gender and second by the modernist framing of urban forms.

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This seminar is FREE and open to all those interested in the topic. Kindly register by sending a mail to kerry.kyaa@biea.ac.uk .

"Diversity in Society - Theories and Practice" - A conference organised by IFRA (Kenya) and GRER-ICT (Université Paris Diderot, France)

Thursday 1st December - 2nd December 2011

It will be held at IFRA-Nairobi (Kenya). Please register by sending an email to publications@ifra-nairobi.net.

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"The Context Of Primate Evolution On Rusinga and Mfangano Islands"

A seminar to be held at The British Institute In Eastern Africa on Friday 15th July 2011 from 11.00am -12.30pm

Speaker: Dr Kieran McNulty (Associate Professor, Biological Anthropologist - University Of Minnesota)

Chair: Dr Fredrick Manthy (Senior Research Scientist, Palaeontology - The National Museums Of Kenya)

 The biological group that comprises apes and humans originated more than 20 million years ago. Our earliest ancestors from this group are best documented in the fossil deposits on Rusinga and Mfangano Islands, situated in the Kenyan waters of Lake Victoria. More than a century of fossil discoveries there has accumulated a wealth of knowledge about these primates, but important questions about their environmental and chronological context persist.

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