Kenyan Monuments

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Tip 1 - Power, politics and public monuments in Nairobi, Kenya

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by lawrence klatzkin | permalink

For the Kenyan novelist, playwright and essayist, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, power through cultural subjugation was the principal tool of colonialism. The monuments of Nairobi can be read as a history of cultural artefacts used by the coloniser to dominate and subjugate the colonised.

For further reading: https://www.opendemocracy.net/laragh-larsen/power-politics-and-public-monuments-in-nairobi-kenya ^[1]

Tip 2 - 200+ Monumental Sites in Kenya - A Comprehensive List

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Toitie Pietersz | permalink

A monument is a structure that is specially erected in remembrance of an important event or an individual, Here is a list of monumental sites in kenya...

For further reading: http://buzzkenya.com/monumental-sites-kenya/ ^[2]