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#Harambee63 – (Video) Utawala (Juliani)
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#Harambee63 – Chronological Dates of Independence for African Countries (upto 1963)
By 1963, 36 African countries had gained independence from one or more colonialist countries, namely Britain, France, Italy and Belgium. Kenya was the only African country to be declared independent in 1963, following a 10 year war period that we know as the State of Emergency. Kenya was the 36th country to gain ...
#Harambee63 – (Video) Kenya (50 Years) Nonini ft. Chris Adwar
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#Harambee63 The Wind of Change Speech – Africa's changing face
“The wind of change is blowing through this [African] continent, and whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. We must all accept it as a fact, and our national policies must take account of it.” – Harold MacMillan, British Prime Minister (1960 Speech to South ...
#Harambee63 (Video) The Rise of African Nationalism (Basil Davidson)
http://youtu.be/MMFdG-Pbny4 Basil Davidson’s books offer an Africanist perspective on Africa. He offers a highly objective perspective on colonialism and African nationalism. This video focuses on what brought about the call for independence on the African continent. It begins with Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah’s ...
Untitled (Glee) 2013
A three part piece that represents people and places that are important to the artist. New identities and roles becoming are given life by limitless possibilities, many of which are awesomely interconnected. Acrylic on canvas, oil pastel and magazine print.
Nairobi Eve (2012)
A reinterpretation of the “Green City in the Sun” and the hope raised in seeing it begin to throb with new life, especially in the arts. Acrylic on canvas with newspaper print.
#Harambee63 Subject Matter and Conceptualisation
Why the subject? What else? I have been lucky to access the richest archives in the world concerning Kenyan history with respect to the KLFA and the war for independence. These archives are both buildings and minds. For about two and a half years, people across Kenya opened their doors to questions over what exactly ...
#Harambee63 An Experimental Installation
#Harambee63 – A Project about African Revolutions and the Price of Independence The project calls into question ideas we hold about our individual roles and capacities in times where bravery and action is required. All so-called revolutionaries are ordinary people but these ordinary people changed the world. By taking ...
More Supernatural Grip (2013)
Acrylic on canvas, silver pen and chalk with magazine print. This piece shows the great debate between what we present about ourselves and what we really mean to ourselves.