Harambee63 – Nyama, Beer, a Bar & War

Harambee63 opened on Thursday 5th September 2013 at Kuona Trust, Nairobi – Kenya. The installation runs until the 20th of September 2013.

During revolutions, in order not to arouse suspicion, Africans could only congregate in two places; bars and churches.

The bar, Kwa Njeri Bar and Butchery is the central location for the gumboots which represent 63 faces of Pan Africanism before 1963. A video installation screened behind the grills of the bar counter ties the philosophies behind Pan Africanism, violence in revolution and movements  like Negritude to the origin of decolonized Africa.