The birth of Neo-Africanism

The spirit of the African renaissance is alive and well in Nairobi where visual arts are thriving and on display all over town.

Everywhere from Nairobi National Museum to Village Market to Paa-ya -Paa Art Centre, exhibition halls are full to overflowing with contemporary Kenyan art.

And from the Alliance Francaise and Goethe Institute in the city centre to Le Rustique and Osteria Restaurants to OneOff and Banana Hill Art Galleries, more intimate exhibitions of either solo or duo sets of artists’ work are up for viewing.

Currently, two exhibitions are notable – one untitled and teaming with Kenyan art specially selected by patrons prepared to take the works abroad in a few weeks’ time; the other of elegant black and white woodcut and lithographic prints prepared by modernist Mexican artists, a joint project between the Mexican embassy and the Museum.

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