FORGOTTEN PEOPLE EXHIBITION OPEN IN NAIROBI AT FRENCH CULTURE CENTER

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The first ever photographic  exhibition on the forgotten people of Palestinians open early this week at the French Culture Center in Nairobi.

 The exhibition is being exhibited on the occasion  of the 2014 World Refugee day by historian Dana April.

The forgotten People reflect the day to day activities of Palestinians in the Beirut refugee camps of Sabra Chatilia and Bourj.

The im,ages are reminiscent of scenes from undeserved Nairobi neighborhood with streets teeming with hawkers and traders busy.

 Some 450,00 refuges are registered with the United Nation Relief and Works Agency in Lebanon.

Through  Portraits of Generations of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon. historian Dana April invites us to reflect on the resilience of those forgotten people.

Over 66 years on the these refugees remains in Limbo, with no state of their own and few rights with Lebanon, raising generation after generation in a place never intended to be permanent

Dana hold PHD in African and South Asian studies from Syracuse University in New York, She was for may years a Research Assistant with Institute for Development studies and History Department University of Nairobi

The  exhibition which runs through this month to 13 of July reflect the new chapter in the suffering of those forgotten people.