#Harambee63 opened on Thursday 5th September 2013 at Kuona Trust, Nairobi – Kenya. The installation runs until the 20th of September 2013. 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 ...
I love gumboots. I love all my 63 pairs of gumboots. The History of Gumboots Gumboots were first worn in the Battle of Waterloo, a battle by the British against Napolean’s army (French). The British and Germans, in gumboots were led by the Duke of Wellington (British). Hence the name, Wellingtons and ...
#Harambee63 is the online aspect of a project that maps out the history of revolution in Africa before 1963. It will place Kenya’s independence movement within the global context of freedom from oppression against Black and Colored people. The first part of #Harambee63 is an installation @Kuona_Trust that blends art ...
Songs were used as an archive for history in particular, histories of oppression. From the Negro Spirituals derived from Field Songs, sang by slaves who were working on cotton farms in the U.S., to KLFA ( Mau Mau) songs sang by detainees as they were transferred to detention camps and reserves, to Miriam Makeba, who ...
