A very educative and interesting talk with slides on NOMADS OF NORTHERN KENYA Education as a response to changing socio-economic patterns was given by Dr Dr. Hassan Arero at 7.00 pm on 29 November 2004 at the Kenya High Commission.

Dr. Arero was born in Moyale, Northern Kenya, before being educated in Mombasa and at the University of Nairobi where he graduated with Honours in Anthropology. He studied for his MA in the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the University of East Anglia, where he also took his PhD with his thesis on Shifting indigenous systems of the Oromo-speaking nomadic pastoralists of northern Kenya. After several years as Head of Ethnography at the National Museums of Kenya, Dr. Arero is now the Keeper of Anthropology at the Horniman Museum in South London and is the first black curator to be appointed at a UK museum.
In March 2004, with other colleagues originally from nomadic-pastoralist background, Dr. Arero founded Nomad Link; a charitable organisation formed to help promote the levels of livelihood of the nomadic people of northern (and other parts of) Kenya through post-secondary school education and training. Dr Arero explained how Nomad Link aims to help intellectually gifted students who would otherwise be held back by poverty, to attain key vocational qualifications and learn valuable skills that could be of great benefit to their poorer communities.


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