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So I finally got around to finding a permanent home (for the foreseeable future) online. I won’t be updating this site any more. So don’t accost me out there (Namesake from the Safaricom Jazz Festival, I see you) and blame me for not writing. Go find me here: http://www.wambuikamiru.com
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Media: BBC - How Do Kenyans Define Their Identity?
Media: BBC – How Do Kenyans Define Their Identity?
Listen to Xavier and Wycliffe talk about Who I Am, Who We Are during the exhibition at the Nairobi National Museum. They were talking to Paul Brown (BBC Focus on Africa). How Do Kenyans Define Their Identity?
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Audio: Are you Kenyan?
"I am different from other Kenyans - I am not a jack of all trades." Audio: Are you Kenyan?
This 50min audio recording from the Silent Room was collected from 5 cities and seven sites within these cities (Nairobi, Lamu, Kisumu, Isiolo and Nyeri). Recorded over a period of two years, this audio is a sample of over 1500 voices that are answering questions about what it actually means to be Kenyan. (Spoken in English and Kiswahili). “I am different from other Kenyans because I am not a…
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Who I Am, Who We Are is on show at the National Museum in Nairobi until the 26th of March 2016. This comes after an extension on the exhibition from the end of February. We thank the National Museum and the people who have seen the show and asked for more!
The exhibition which includes the Silent Room, body maps, a sound installation, a video and photographs from the project seeks to engage the audience on what it means to “be” Kenyan.
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The Who I Am, Who We Are Exhibtion
Exhibition: National Museum – Nairobi #WhoWeAreKE Who I Am, Who We Are is on show at the National Museum in Nairobi until the 26th of March 2016.
Video: #WhoWeAreKE “I have not come across anyone from Lamu who asks me why I live here.” "I have not come across anyone from Lamu who asks me why I live here."
Event: #WhoWeAreKE Discussion Forum at Goethe Institute Nairobi Join us for a discussion about what it means to "be" Kenyan through an intimate evening with Xavier and Wambui and some of the participants in the project from different parts of Kenya.
Event: #WhoWeAreKE at the Nairobi National Museum Come experience the voices from the Silent Room and see body maps created by Kenyans from different part of Kenya - discussing what it means to "be" Kenyan.
#WhoWeAreKE - Wind of Change
"There is actually a colonial leftover cultural distinction and it something that I feel is still in my life," #WhoWeAreKE Wind of Change
“In 1925, my family came to Kenya and I picked just five very important strategic positions from my family and history. If my family didn’t come here then I wouldn’t have what I have, so I’m extra-ordinarily grateful to them for having made that decision to come.” The artist is a member of one of the newest political parties in Kenya. Her father was instrumental to Kenya attaining her…
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#WhoWeAre - Untitled
“I was the only mzungu in the whole class. And it was younger Kenyans, middle class and educated. I was nervous about it." - #WhoWeAreKE
“I was the only mzungu in the whole class. And it was younger Kenyans, middle class and educated. I was nervous about it.” The creator of this piece is a photographer who was born in Kenya. After Kenya refused her a passport, (both her parents had British Passports and one of them was born in Kenya), she was given a British passport when she was seven years old and she is currently trying to get…
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#WhoWeAreKE - Second Class
"I am white, and many Kenyans tell me I can never truly belong here. They don’t care how long I have lived here." #WhoWeAreKE
“I am white, and many Kenyans tell me I can never truly belong here. They don’t care how long I have lived here, or that I speak Kiswahili. According to them, I will never be a Kenyan.” The creator of this piece was born and raised in Kenya. She has dedicated most of her life to studying and recording Samburu culture before it disappears. She is now in her 70s. “I am white, and many Kenyans tell…
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#WhoWeAre - I Pray for Peace
“Someone in power at the top may be from your tribe but you will sleep hungry, unless you work hard.” - I Pray for Peace #WhoWeAreKE
Lastly, some one in power at the top may be from your tribe but you will sleep hungry, unless you work hard. The mother of two who created this piece is an artist. She was born in Nakuru but moved to Lamu where she now lives. “Everybody has a different thought about the other and about Kenya. “ I have been painting but I didn’t think I could have painted the answer to a question about your…
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#WhoWeAreKE - The Wisdom of the Past
“The thought of the Government doing everything for us has been thwarted. A feeling of being oppressed has also been lifted.” The Wisdom of the Past #WhoWeAreKE
“The thought of the Government doing everything for us has been thwarted. A feeling of being oppressed has also been lifted as reality has been made open.” The artist is a young man who is an acrobat and fisherman in Lamu. “The thought of the Government doing everything for us has been thwarted. A feeling of being oppressed has also been lifted as reality has been made open.” I’m proud to have…
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#WhoWeAreKE - Hakuna Matata
“When the flag is coming up, all of us feel Kenyan, we feel like one thing. The feeling gets inside our hearts and we know that something special is up there.” - Hakuna Matata #WhoWeAreKE
“When the flag is coming up, all of us feel Kenyan, we feel like one thing. The feeling gets inside our hearts and we know that something special is up there.” The artist is a young man who was born on Pate Island and who now lives in Lamu. “When the flag is coming up, all of us feel Kenyan, we feel like one thing. The feeling gets inside our hearts and we know that something special is up…
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#WhoWeAreKE - My Life Line
"Without patriotism one should not be called a citizen of that country. Because of that I am Kenyan, similar to other Kenyans." - My Life Line #WhoWeAreKE
“Without patriotism one should not be called a citizen of that country. Because of that I am Kenyan, similar to other Kenyans.” This piece was created by a 75yr old man who lives in Lamu. Here is his story: “Without patriotism one should not be called a citizen of that country. Because of that I am Kenyan, similar to other Kenyans.” I’m proud being Kenyan whether I’m in Lamu which is part of…
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#WhoWeAreKE - Her Excellency Sharifa
#WhoWeAreKE – Her Excellency Sharifa
The artist is from Lamu, she is a Lamu County Councilor. She hopes to one day be Madam President. “And even if an incident like Mpeketoni (God forbid) happens, you can come to my place and hide yourself and vice versa.” “And even if an incident likes the Mpeketoni (God forbid) happens, you can come to my place and hide yourself and vice versa.” I’m from Lamu in the coast, here is the sea, our…
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#YourNameBetraysYou : The Installation
#YourNameBetraysYou followed on the very famous words by Former Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka who unknowingly but profoundly pointed to the conversations that we have in private concerning “the other tribe.” The installation sought to bring to public what we say about other ethnic groups and consisted of a wall of all the stereotypes we hold for each other, some known some unknown. The…
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#IMOTomorrow I am moving out. Tomorrow. : The Installation
“I am moving out. Tomorrow.” was created as part of the group show “Concerning the Internal” at Circle Art Gallery. It was a personal piece that showed the movement from love to loss and the process it took to get the occupier of the room to reach the decision to leave her failing marriage. It was a snapshot of the room and woman’s state at 3:23am on the morning that she leaves her marital home.…
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