Painter Ciru Ivy, who says she has been plus-size most of her life, shows portraits of women of different shapes and sizes at Nairobi Gallery with three other artists, Business Daily reported on 8 October 2026.
On 17 October, Call Me Queen, a drama shot in Kenya and set in Nairobi in 1999, has its Kenyan premiere at the NBO Film Festival, KBC Digital reported on 10 October; Capital FM put tickets at KSh 2,500.
From 9 to 23 October 2026, 14 concerts, festivals, film screenings and exhibitions in Nairobi, Kigali, Kilifi and Kampala, with venues and prices where the organiser lists them.
On Saturday 24 October 2026, Afrigo Band will play with the Pearl Symphony Orchestra at the UMA show grounds in Kampala. Quicket Uganda lists tickets from USh 120,000.
Circle Art Gallery in Lavington is showing paintings, prints, drawings and archive material by the late Tanzanian artist, who taught at Kenyatta University from 1986; the show runs until Saturday 10 October, a public holiday on which the gallery says it is closed.
On 15 October 2026, Remnants, a 25-minute Rwandan fiction film by Zion Sulaiman, is due to premiere at AAIFF Africa in Kigali, The New Times reported on 6 October.
Ugandan artist Sanaa Gateja, known as the "Bead King", is showing paper-bead works on bark cloth, banana-fibre pieces and found-root sculptures at Afriart Gallery in Kampala from 19 September to 21 November 2026.
On Saturday 10 October, Koffi Olomide headlines a concert at Ulinzi Sports Complex, Nairobi, marking 50 years in broadcasting for Radio Citizen presenter Fred Obachi Machoka. On 7 October, the Viutickets page listed tickets from KSh 6,000.
From 16 to 18 October, the Gikuyu-language play Waiyaki Wa Hinga returns to the stage at Nairobi's Kenya National Theatre for three 7pm shows, according to the ticketing platform Madfun, which says the first run sold out.
From 15 to 25 October 2026, the seventh NBO Film Festival will show 54 films, 33 features and 21 shorts, at four Nairobi venues, opening with Rwanda's Cannes prize-winner Ben'Imana, according to the line-up Sinema Focus published on 6 October.
Pride of Samburu, a National Geographic Society feature documentary on lion conservation in northern Kenya, has premiered in Nairobi after its world premiere in Samburu communities on 29 September.
From 16 to 19 October 2026, Beneath the Baobabs will host the four-day Kisima Festival in Kilifi, Kenya, with tickets from KSh 2,000 on Quicket, according to the organiser's and ticketing pages.
