The statue of a slave trader, who was also a prominent and charitable citizen of Bristol, was toppled into the harbour. Gandhi’s statue was pulled down in Accra where Gandhi has little to do, but on behave of some students from South Africa. Whenever I see the monumental statue of Jomo Kenyatta at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (or even on our currency notes since the statue figures on all our new notes as the result of an unsatisfactory court decision), I reflect whether we should not destroy it or at least transfer it to the Nairobi National Museum. Kenyans might well recognise the amount of land and other resources that Jomo collected — they wondered how. But soon Jomo rang my father that he had heard I was back — and asked why we didn't go see him.

Source: The Star July 03, 2020 02:03 UTC