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Emotive Collage with text "Africa, Should, Value, Must."
August 3, 2023December 13, 2023
Blog/ThinkPiece

Radical Hope and Black Liberation

To fully live in the freedom of our blackness, there is a bigger task at hand; to challenge the existing Western paradigm...

March 16, 2023March 17, 2023
Blog/ThinkPiece

Balancing Rights: Copyright on African Heritage

It has been two years since the historic Jagger Library of the University of Cape Town was struck by a massive wildfire. As a

June 25, 2021July 22, 2021
Blog/ThinkPiece/Visualisations

Long distance trade routes in East Africa

The Omani settlement along the East African coast followed the fall of the Mazrui family in 1837 and subsequently, the Sultan’s attainment of Mombasa

June 25, 2021July 22, 2021
Blog/ThinkPiece

Ujenzi – A musical journey through Kenya’s history

Kenya’s story of development as a nation juxtaposes nicely with the building of the railway line linking the Indian Ocean to Lake Victoria. The

March 12, 2021July 23, 2021
Blog/ThinkPiece

An Africa centered approach to restitution data

This story was written thanks to an open call funded by Creative Commons Open GLAM Platform. This is part of a series of articles that

July 30, 2019July 23, 2021
Blog/ThinkPiece

Seeking out the past in Nairobi’s present

On a cold Sunday morning in the middle of Nairobi’s central business district, the usual bustling chaos of this vibrant city reduces to a

July 30, 2019July 23, 2021
Blog

Changing Perspectives – Nairobi past & present

Changing perspectives: Nairobi Past & Present What is more interesting than the permanence itself, is the lack of it. Everywhere you look, the signs

July 17, 2018July 22, 2021
Blog/ThinkPiece

From looted lands to restless hands  – The Repatriation debate

The year 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of the looting of the Maqdala treasures and manuscripts by British Soldiers from the town of Magdala, Ethiopia.

November 21, 2017September 20, 2023
Blog/Digitisation/Innovation

3D reconstruction of Samburu railway station

In October 2015 I documented  Samburu Railway station as part of the Save The Railway project. I was really struck by this particular station,

November 12, 2017July 22, 2021
Application/Blog/ThinkPiece

A personal journey to digital heritage

My passion for heritage and culture was one that evolved from child like curiosity, to feverish passion and later on to an uncharted career

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Resources

Of Memories and Reels: A Study of the State of Kenya’s Audio Visual Archives

Skills for Culture – Phase IV: Learning Across Generations, Building Capacity and Honouring Heritage, Digitally and In Community

Skills for Culture – Masterclass Edition

A Toolkit for Cultural Heritage Practitioners

Report – Cultural Heritage in Kenyan Counties

Barbed Wire Village – An Exhibition on Forced Villagisation in Colonial Kenya

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