To raise more awareness on the presence of detention camps in Kenya and the brutal history of the colonial period, we have created a number of digital assets to help interpret, understand and visualize this past.
These assets include 3D models, maps, video/audio interviews and documentaries (with more coming soon). It is our hope that they contribute towards a greater understanding of colonial history by enabling us to visualize and make accessible previously suppressed/hidden narratives.
To use any of these assets, email us info@museumofbritishcolonialism.org
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3D Models
A collection of interactive 3D models visualizing various structures found within detention camps in colonial Kenya.
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Oral History Interviews
Interviews with Mau Mau veterans and survivors of the Emergency period in Kenya.
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Field Work Diaries
A compilation of field work videos showing the Museum’s team visit former detention camps in Kenya. Evidence obtained from field work form one of the primary sources for the digital reconstructions.
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Interactive Map
An interactive map showing location of detention camps spread out across Kenya
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Operation Legacy - Documentary
Operation Legacy was a British Colonial Office program to destroy or hide files, to prevent them being inherited by its ex-colonies. In 2009, a group of Kenyan war veterans sued the British government in order to reveal the truth about what really happened in Kenya between 1952-1960.