Museum of Kenyan Architecture

Platform for Outstanding Kenyan Architects & Architecture. Initiative of Arch. Prof. Omenya, Eco-Build Africa, Kenyatta University & University of Canberra.

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This man put the nation above self. Rest in peace Raila Amolo Odinga.

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He was detained at Meru, Mfangano Island and in Kapsabet. Manyei spent his life after detention in poverty, living with his family as squatters. He died on 10 April 1974. He was buried at his wife's (Taplelei) home at Lemoru Ngeny village in Uasin Gishu County.

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1. Barsirian Arap Manyei (1894 –1974) was the last Nandi Orkoiyot and Kenya's longest serving political detainee (1923-1964; 41 years in detention). He was born to Koitalel arap Samoeiin 1894 in Aldai, Nandi County. He was the second born son of Koitalel's 2nd wife, Taparchok.

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8. On 16 October 1923,Manyei and four other elders were arrested and deported to Meru. Permission to hold the ceremony was subsequently withdrawn and it did not take place. He was detained from 1923 to 1964 making him Kenya's longest serving political prisoner.

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Indian Bazaar, current Biashara Street, Nairobi, in 1911

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This was the first building of present-day General Post Office (GPO), Nairobi. Built in 1918 it had a distinct tower and flag colour system that notified Nairobi's early settlers on the arrival or dispatch of their mail to and from London.

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The first 10 Jaluo Adventist adherents in Kenya were baptized on 21 May 1911. In 1913, Carscallen acquired a small press during a trip home to the United States and returned to set up African Herald Publishing at Gendia in order to publish books, papers, and a monthly journal.

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First SDA church in Kenya was established in November 27, 1906, in Gendia, Kendu Bay, Homabay County. It was established by Mr. Carscallen and Mr. Nyambo with the assistance of Abraham C. Enns, a German missionary and gardener stationed in Tanganyika, today Tanzania.

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Carscallen says, "... we chose the site at Gendia among the primitive African tribe who spoke a Nilotic language." Within 14 months Carscallen reported that he and Nyambo had erected the basic mission buildings and that he had learned the Luo language.

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Humble man. Great Artist & Interior Designer. Great Scholar.

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We shaped the Basic Design Programme that is currently taught in most Universities in Kenya. We explored a totally different pedagogy, departing from Eurocentric Euclidean Geometry in favour of Design from Nature, grounded in making - rather than representation.

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One Off Contemporary Gallery closes an exhibition by one of the greatest Kenyan artist Kahare Miano. Kahare taught me at the University of Nairobi. After my PhD, I spent time working together with this great mind in the architecture studios at UoN.

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Where was Parliament? Where was the National Museums when our collective heritage was being destroyed?