AwaaZ Magazine - Volume 13, Issue 2

Cover Story: Experience EastLeigh, A Beautiful Mosaic

NARISSA ALIBHAI Introduces The Festival

The SAMOSA Festival is a bi-annual celebration of the diversity of culture in Kenya. The delicious samosa is a snack that in this part of the world combines flavours from the Middle East, South Asia a...

STEFANIA TRANFO relates some of the events

The 7th SAMOSA Festival 2016 went east to Nairobi’s Eastleigh community and was an intense and vibrant celebration spread over July and August offering events for a wide variety of interests and expec...

UBAX ABDI brings it alive!

GRAFFITI In partnership with Society for International Development and The Street Diaries In the third week of July, after many delays and much anticipation, Street Diaries, the Kenyan graffiti col...

Panel Discussions

In partnership with the Kenya Human Rights Commission,Society for Inte...

Nai Ni Who? Walking Tour

In partnership with the Godown Arts Centre Forty hikers (a few from E...

Poetry Session

That same afternoon Fatuma’s Voice entertained SAMOSA Festival’s audie...

Official Launch

In partnership with PAWA 254 and Kilimanjaro Jamia Restaurant The off...

Hadithi

In partnership with Zamaleo Act and Nomad Hotel On the evening of Thu...

Yoga

A treat for body and soul was also an event of the SAMOSA Festival. On...

The Concert

The day was then concluded with a concert at the Sarakasi Dome in Ngar...

Literary Colloquium

In partnership with the Dept. of Literature, University of Nairobi and...

The Football Tournament

In partnership with Berlin Self Help Group To celebrate the street ar...

The Art Exhibition

Looking for space to exhibit artworks in Eastleigh was no easy feat. S...

Drama

In partnership with the University Free Travelling Theatre, University...

Samosa Team

2016 Team

Editorial Cartoons

Regular Column

London Calling - Brexit Blues

Ramnik Shah, born in Mombasa, practised law in Nairobi from 1964 to `74 and then for the next 30 years in England, where since retirement he has been engaged in academic research and writing on migrat...

Brexit and The Future of EPA

When things fall apart, they don’t do so by accident. There are underlying deeper historical and civ...

Faith Of Their Distant Fathers

In this regular column a teacher, writer and media personality starts from personal anecdote to pres...

Special Feature

Tara Arts – the first British Asian Thea...

By Jatinder Verma In 1977 Jatinder Verma got together with some like-minded friends in south London and founded Tara Arts — the first British Asian theatre company. It was a political act, fuelled by...

People Change

Nuru Bahati Shukrani’s fine hands introduces to the world a man whose heart is a child. His unswervi...

The Sound of Hunger

A bed creaks Again All night Still at it? A groan and a moan A grunt More creaking…

Featured Book

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Corporate Support

Supported [in part] by a grant

Foundation Open Society Institute in cooperation with the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa of the Open Society Foundations

Friends of Awaaz

Yash and Jill Ghai, Mohez Karmali, Gijsbert Oonk, Vijoo Rattansi, Victoria Commercial Bank Charitable Trust, I& M Bank, Willy Mutunga, Chandaria Foundation, Asian Foundation, Firoze Manji, Muthoni Wanyeki, Wanjiru Gikonyo, Kirit Pattni, Ismail Ramadhani, Dr. Ramadhan Marjan, Radha Upadhyaya, Benegal Pereira, Mburu Gitu, Neela Ghoshal, Hindpal Jabbal, Krishna Sondhi, Nyawira Muthiga, Sheetal Kapila, Fiona Mati, Ramnik Shah, Shiraz Durrani, Madhukant Shah, Rosemelle Mutoka, Nivi Sharma, Salim Damji, Juzar Hooker, Mark Ojal, Mohinder Dhillon, Karen Rothmyer, Sachen Shah, Akbar Husein, Peter Kiama, Sarah and Felix Kyalo

About Awaaz

Awaaz is a magazine published tri-annually out of Nairobi, Kenya. It aims to provide a broad platform for debate and reflection on issues of both contemporary and historical interest. What started off in 2002 as a focus on the role of the South Asian community in the historical, political and socio-economic spheres of Kenya; has now broadened to cover the larger debates on diversity, democracy, human rights and social justice. The magazine also critically examines the role of minorities both as communities in Kenya and East Africa; as well as a concept of human rights in a society be they ethnic, racial, gender based, sexual or political.