The idea that Kenya is made up of 42(+) tribes is widespread, but the origins, nature and consequences of any list of these tribes are not well known. This was the issue in focus during the IDS seminar by Dr Samantha Balaton-Chrimes on 5th December 2019. During the seminar, “Who Are Kenya’s 42(+) Tribes? The Census and the Political Utility of Magical Uncertainty”, Dr Samantha explained the social imaginary of the 42(+), showing its lack of basis in any ethnic list-keeping beyond the 1969 census.

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On 4th November afternoon, local time in Kenya, the Confucius Institute at the University of Nairobi played the host to Nanjing Cultural Exchange Delegation that visited the Confucius Institute. The Delegation held the Nanjing City Wall Pictures and Cultural Products Exhibition, the Maritime Silk Road Lecture, and the Nanjing City Tourism Promotion among other series of activities to the faculty and students of the Confucius Institute.

Angela Okune is a doctoral candidate in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Irvine. She studies data practices and infrastructures of research groups working in Nairobi, to explore broader questions of equity, knowledge production and socio-economic development in Africa. On his presentation, Angela Okune discussed her ongoing ethnographic research project and high lightened how research data is produced, shared and contested by a diverse research group in Kenya.