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Usanii Ni Ufundi, 2025

Usanii ni Ufundi (roughly translated as Art is Craftsmanship) is a Swahili saying that expresses the mastery, ingenuity, and resilience of community-led organisations at the intersection of culture, creativity, and memory. In this context it defines artistry not just as aesthetic expression, but as a deliberate and evolving form of technical mastery, rooted in heritage, driven by purpose, and sharpened by adaptation. By titling the documentary, Usanii ni Ufundi we are challenging audiences to see cultural work not as soft, decorative labour, but as strategic craftsmanship that deserves both recognition and robust infrastructure.

In this documentary, we take you with us to Malindi and Makueni where the African Digital Heritage team shares intimate and insightful moments with cultural practitioners, organisers, and community change makers who, despite limited resources, continue to innovate and serve as custodians of living heritage.

Echoes of Colonialism, 2023

In 2023, Kenya celebrated 60 years of independence from Britain. On this milestone anniversary, this documentary unveiling an exclusive investigation into the ongoing crimes perpetrated by Britain’s military in Kenya—the largest such presence in Africa. Echoes of Empire: British Neocolonialism in Kenya, exposes the British military’s attempts to conceal alleged sex crimes and murder by its troops, along with declassified documents that meticulously detail shocking evidence of torture and rape during the era of British colonial rule.

A Very British Way of Torture, 2022

A Very British Way of Torture is a film by Ed McGown and produced by Rob Newman. Piecing together survivor testimonies and expert analysis from British and Kenyan historians, this film tells a complete and detailed story for the first time of how Britain was involved in systemic torture – including accounts of murders, rapes and forced castrations. – Source

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  • Produced by: Rogan Productions, 2022

Mau Mau Field Work Diaries: 2018 – Present

Between 1952 and 1960, the British colonial government established a vast network of detention camps across Kenya in an effort to crush the Mau Mau uprising. Known as “the pipeline,” this system of camps became sites of torture, forced confessions, and mass murder during the Emergency period. After Kenya gained independence in 1963, the camps were either shut down or absorbed into public infrastructure such as schools and prisons. Due to the destruction of archives and ongoing political suppression, the legacy and memory of the camps remain hidden in plain sight. These fieldwork diaries document the efforts of the volunteer collective Museum of British Colonialism to locate former camp sites and explore how they are remembered and understood today.

African Renaissance when art meets power: Kenya, 2021

“In Kenya, a state created barely a century ago, Afua Hirsch explores how the British spun an idealised stereotype while carving out a brutal empire. Afua reveals the extremes of life today, the urban sprawl and untouched outback, and a young population still pushing away the lingering darkness of the British imperial past.”- TRACKS

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  • Produced by: Clearstory Ltd

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