A museum on a Kenyan island glosses over slavery
Sometimes, history is told not by the winners, but by the funders
Back in the 1950s, a young British officer known as the district commissioner was ensconced in a charming seafront mansion from which he lorded it over the locals of Lamu, an island off the north-eastern coast of what was then the colony of Kenya. “The place was magical,” he wrote in an essay published half a century later. “Enchanted, I fell under its spell.”
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