“Your Name Betrays You” opened on Thursday 19th of Feb 2015. Thank you to the 200 people who turned up on the opening night and to the many who have been coming through. The exhibition closes on Sunday 8th of March 2015. [youtube=http://youtu.be/b8R4NW3W2NM]
http://youtu.be/CcrZgAdkUMI Nairobi is love.
Zikism was Nigeria’s equivalent of Kusema na Kutenda, or amongst the KLFA (Mau Mau) Kuuga na gwika. Zikism was a philosophy created by Nnamdi “Zik” Azikiwe. His policy appealed to all including farmers – often the base of any peasant uprising that has seen revolutionary change, globally. Zikists, ...
The process by which Kenyans were killed and intimidated in order to give up land and to stop further uprisings against the British colonialists. They were punitive murder campaigns that also saw livestock stolen from the Africans. In 1894, Fort Hall (Murang’a) was captured under Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen. A ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
#Harambee63 Africa’s Anthem “God Bless Africa” Nkosi sikelel’ iAfrica was composed in 1897 by Xhosa composer, Enoch Mankayi Sontonga at the age of 24. It was a prayer that God will bless Africa, a song that was influenced by the suffering he saw of the Black people in South Africa. It was based on tune, ...
It is in coffee houses that many revolutions have been sparked off. The conversation around a cup of coffee shared between open minds provides opportunity for mass action based on ideals and projections of what the future must become. “Coffee fuelled the information exchanges of the 17th and 18th centuries” The headlines ...
