Alliance Française

Poetry Performance 🎙️

‘Your Story Matters’ is a performance featuring poems from Harrison Wabuko’s MIRROR EP and Book, blending music, storytelling, and spoken word poetry, alongside interactive Q&A sessions, fostering discussions on the themes explored in the pieces.

Film Screening 🎞️

‘Beneath the tides’ is a curated film festival that comprises six short films that focus on family and reconciliation.

Kijiji E-sports Day 🎮

E-sports, or competitive videogaming, is a rapidly evolving and expanding. Videogames and competitive “e-sports” play are booming in Africa with Kenya emerging as a hub for e-sports in East Africa. Join in the fun and experience Just Dance, Tekken and FIFA with Kenyan e-sports personalities.

Exhibition Matches 🏐

With Kenyan women’s volleyball team, Malkia Stars and Alexandra Ndola, competing in the Paris Olympics 2024, focus will shift to volleyball on Saturday, 10th August. The Alliance Française garden will be turned into volleyball court for exhibition matches by young and aspiring volleyball players.

Kijiji Esports Day 🎮

E-sports, or competitive videogaming, is a rapidly evolving and expanding.  Videogames and competitive “e-sports” play are booming in Africa with Kenya emerging as a hub for e-sports in East Africa. Join in the fun and experience Just Dance, Tekken and FIFA with Kenyan e-sports personalities.

The Business of Sports in East Africa (Panel discussion) 🗣️

Hosting international sporting events requires huge investments in infrastructure. This privilege can spur economic growth through the creation of jobs for infrastructure development. Join the industry players from various sectors as they discuss the business of sports in Africa. An industry measured internationally in hundreds of billions of dollars.

Photo Exhibition 📷

Lionel Lauret is an artist from Reunion Island and a graduate of the School of Decoratives Arts of Strasbourg. His art combines the magical, the imaginary, history and poetry. “Portraits of WaSwahili” is inspired by one of the artist’s multitemporal artwork, Le Peuple Infini, that retraces the multiple origins and cultures of the inhabitants of Reunion Island.

Book Launch 📕

Mvita: History of Mombasa 12th century – 2012 follows the city’s origins in the 12th century or earlier, as a settlement of the Swahili, to 2012 when Kenya ushered in the devolved system of government and the Mombasa Municipal Council was replaced by Mombasa County.