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Joseph Murumbi. A Gallery where African artists could sell and showcase their works. This would help preserve, promote and protect African art and culture. African Heritage also established a cultural outreach program known as Kenya's African Heritage Festival, with a troupe of models, dancers, musicians, acrobats and others who travelled the world promoting Kenya tourism and
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and his wife Sheila. Mr Murumbi was the first Kenyan foreign minister and also served as the second vice president of Kenya. He was an art connoisseur and one of the greatest art collectors of African art and promoted African culture. Thus, African heritage was formed in 1972 by Alan Donovan and
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In the year 2014 African Heritage House was at risk for demolition to pave way for planned standard gauge railway line built by the Kenya government through a Chinese company. The railway line from Mombasa to Nairobi. Fortunately the house was saved through online campaign petition to stop the
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The house has thousands pieces of objects, collections of artworks, artefacts, antique, ceremonial costumes, weaponry, jewellery, textiles, brassware and traditional pottery.
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of Northern Kenya. With the collections of art and material culture of the nomadic Turkana tribe, he held his first art exhibition in
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showing a collection of authentic African costumes and fashions created from the hand-woven and hand-printed textiles of Africa.
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demolition and the classification of the house as a national monument in Kenya.
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In 1970 Alan Donovan arrived in Kenya and spent most of his time with the
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The house inspiration depicts the towering mud of the
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