Artist couple exhibit at Banana Hill
Tuesday December 15 2020
Paintings on display at the Banana Hill Gallery exhibition titled Low and High Artists Altitudes . PHOTO | DIANA NGILA | NMG
By MARGARETTA WA GACHERU
At the Banana Hill Art Gallery, the couple is exhibiting 50 paintings.
In all the years that Rahab Njambi and Shine Tani have been together, they have never had a joint art exhibition. At the Banana Hill Art Gallery, the couple is exhibiting 50 paintings.
Njambi has more than twice as many landscapes in the premiere exhibition. Nonetheless, it has been a while since Shine, who is the managing director of Banana Hill Gallery devoted himself to his painting.
This city church was for Goans only 3 years ago
The renaming of Parklands Secondary School to Dr Ribeiro Parklands School in 2015 was to pay homage to an Indian Goan who not only donated the land on which it sits, but also as a salute to his community’s contribution in Kenya.
Goans, unlike other Asians, did not come to Kenya to build the Uganda Railway. Most came as doctors, lawyers, accountants, clerks and businessmen, as Cyprian Fernandes informs us in his 2016 offering, Yesterday in Paradise. He reveals that others came as chefs, tailors, carpenters, mechanics and musicians.
Dr Rosendo Ayres Ribeiro, was the first private medical practitioner in 1899. He is famous for visiting patients atop a zebra, which was more disease resistant than the traditional horse. Dr Ribeiro operated under a tent in the muddy tin shack that was Nairobi where he invented a malaria drug which was patented and sold to an international pharmaceutical.