What’s New in Nairobi?

Amapiano Legends SHAKES & LES will be Live in Coachela Garden 🍾🍾🚀🚀🇰🇪 🇿🇦

On Friday, 16th October @shakesxles_official land in Nairobi to headline our ‘Afro District FRIDAYS’ together with our Homegrown heroes @linstrom.wav @djaypaps amongst other Djs and artists.

Mark Your Calendars 🗓️ 16th October 2026 💃🕺

Die hard tickets 🎟️ will be Live
Stay tuned 😎 for more info on Table packages and Event Updates.

📍 Coachela Garden
🏠 Kenrail Towers, Ground Floor.
🏙️ Westlands, Nairobi. 🕺

Muthamaki WAIYAKI WA HINGA is back! After a powerful sold out first run, this thrilling theatrical play about Kenya’s first freedom fighter is back on stage at the KENYA NATIONAL THEATRE! Expect Gikuyu Cultural music, thrilling performances, storytelling and a lot more. This is a non miss.

What happens when young people reimagine the forest?

@kairosimaginationsafari is a Nairobi-based arts collective that uses creativity to rethink ecological futures. For the UK/Kenya Legacy Programme, they’re partnering with UK researcher Niall Readfern to create “The Forest Imaginary.”

Niall spent two years in the Southwest Mau doing something most researchers don’t: walking interviews, body mapping, soundscape recordings. Listening to the people who actually live alongside the forest instead of talking over them.

Now that research becomes the foundation for Kairos Futura’s Safari Studio, where young adults from Masese get to imagine rewilded futures for their forest home. Not as subjects of conservation policy. As architects of transformation.

The result? A culmination here in Ngara featuring artworks, sound installations, sculptural pieces and speculative designs; all made by the community, for the community.

Get ready for DevFest Nairobi by building with Google Cloud and Gemini!

Join us on 17 October 2026 for a hands-on learning session as part of the Build with Google AI experience. This session is designed to help you get started with, work through, and complete the learning labs focused on building Agentic Apps.

Whether you’ve already started the labs and need help getting unstuck, or you’re yet to begin, this is an opportunity to learn alongside fellow developers, get guidance from experts, ask questions, and make progress together.

What to expect

• Hands-on guidance through the required learning labs
• Support with technical challenges and blockers
• Practical exploration of Google Cloud and Gemini
• Guidance from Google Developer Experts and experienced community members
• An opportunity to connect and build with fellow developers

Why it matters

The three learning paths form part of the preparation for Day 1 of DevFest Nairobi 2026, which will feature an exclusive hackathon led by the Google Kenya team, with a KES 2,000,000 prize kitty!

So, start the learning experience now, work through the labs, and join us on 17 October to get the support you need to take your learning further.

Ready to start building?

Register for the Build with Google AI experience and access the learning labs. Your registration will also indicate your interest in attending the Nairobi Hands-On Workshop on 17 October.

We look forward to building with you!

DevFest Nairobi 2026

Circumnavigating Lake Turkana. Crossing into the Omo Delta. 10 days. One direction: forward.

There are expeditions. And then there is Jade Sea.

Mara Nomads’ most audacious journey returns (after 4 years) in 2026 — a circumnavigation of Lake Turkana, tracing its eastern shoreline before descending into the Omo Delta near the Ethiopian border. 10 days across ancient desert, volcanic shorelines, and landscapes that feel like they belong to another world entirely.

This is not an expedition for the curious. It is an expedition for the committed. For those who’ve done the distance, earned the vehicle, and have the patience for roads that test everything — machine, mind, and resolve.

Built for capable vehicles and capable people. This route does not forgive poor preparation. It rewards it.

Delight in a refined breakfast experience, elevated with a glass of bubbly.

Every Saturday and Sunday from 6:30am to 11:00am at @mynarestaurant

The Naya Pregame is a full morning experience designed to get you moving, feeling good and connecting with the community before the main event begins. Expect a carefully curated mix of movement, wellness, recovery, music and feel-good energy — everything that represents the Naya Mvmnt experience.

Then, when the morning winds down, the journey continues into Asili Vol. II: The Awakening that evening, where the energy shifts from wellness and movement into music, culture and celebration.

With one ticket, you get access to both worlds: the Naya experience in the morning and the full Asili experience in the evening.

One ticket. Two experiences. One full day of movement, music and community.

Asili Experience Vol. II: The Awakening • Young Stunna, Kelvin Momo, Sykes LIVE

Asili Vol.II Afterparty

LOOP Safari Gravel Series is coming to Nanyuki! 🏔️

11KM, 45KM or 90KM. Pick your level of “I can totally do this” and let’s ride. 😂

📍 Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy
📅 Sat, 17 Oct | 8AM
💸 KES 1,800 via LOOP | KES 2,500 other channels

Route options:

• Kids 5km (shorter loop in the conservancy with one hill)
• Chui Route – 11 km (1 Lap of the Conservancy)
• Duma Route – 45km
• Simba Route – 90km

All routes on the race course will be clearly marked and GPX files shared upon registration.

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Some experiences are worth making plans for. Join us to Uncork your October with an exceptional selection of over 120 wines, exciting discoveries and the people who make the world of wine so interesting. Come taste something new. Revisit an old favourite. Discover your next one.

Vendors include Brown’s Cheese and Sierra Restaurants.

YOUR TICKET INCLUDES:

🍷 Free wine tasting

🥂 Complimentary wine glass

🧀 Cheese sampling — first come, first served

⏰Tasting & Entry closes at 5:00 PM sharp

18+ | Please drink responsibly | Tickets are non-refundable