For those of you too young to remember the opening of African Heritage on Kenyatta Avenue by the then mayor of Nairobi Margaret Kenyatta, let me refresh this bit of history for you. African Heritage was Africa’s first Pan African Gallery, which I co-founded with Kenya’s first Foreign Minister and former Vice President, Joseph Murumbi, and his wife Sheila in 1972. The first African Heritage opened its doors early in 1973 at the site where the I&M Tower sits today. The government of the day promised to instal tourist police in kiosks around the city centre. African Heritage was then forced to move to a much smaller location behind the former gallery to make way for the new I&M Bank.

Source: The Star March 12, 2021 00:56 UTC