Afropolis - City, Media, Art was an exhibition project, dealing with five megacities in Africa (Cairo, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Kinshasa and Lagos), their histories, recent developments, and cultural productions including visual arts. The Nairobi part of the exhibition was exhibited in the gallery of the Goethe-Institut Nairobi, prior to the main exhibition in Germany and showcased four commissioned art works.

Slum TV produced Upgradasion', a fragment of an animated soap opera which gives insights into a slum-development project and the complex economies of a slum. The artist collective Maasai Mbili, produced a series of sign paintings on vernacular names of places in Nairobi and their meanings. The Berlin-based artist Laura Horelli investigates how expats cope with the contradictions between their idealistic aims and their actual living and working realities. Sam Hopkins created an installation about matatus, inquiring into the legends that surround the entire matatu industry.

Thanks to: Christian Hanussek (co-curator of Nairobi), Charles Matathia, Hawa Essuman and Chris King (writer, director and editor of Upgradasion), Maasai Mbili and Laura Horelli. Supported by: Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Iwalewahaus and GTZfull project