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Exhibition – On the Art of Being Accomplished

From 2019 to 2023, the SALMEA research project brought together researchers from European and East African research institutions to study practices and ideas of self-accomplishment in East Africa. It specifically focused on investment in the family and in accumulating wealth and prestige.

The SALMEA team is pleased to invite you to an exhibition organised in collaboration with the Alliance Francaise de Nairobi from 24 to 31st January.

This photo and video exhibition immerses us in the multiple facets and paths of self-accomplishment in Kenya today. It captures, visually and through personal stories, the quest for self-accomplishment as tied to questions of wealth, power, authority and respectability. It shows a variety of expressions for the art of being accomplished, from marrying and raising children to engaging in community work to investing in business, art, or politics. Being an accomplished man or woman requires navigating multiple, conflicting values and expectations situated at the intersection of ethnicity, race, class, age, generation, gender, and religion.

 


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IFRA Nairobi (January 17, 2024). Exhibition – On the Art of Being Accomplished. IFRA Nairobi. Retrieved February 16, 2026 from https://doi.org/10.58079/vm46