AO: This excerpt from Carotenuto and Luongo (2005) highlights the reuse of the physical infrastructure of the bank to store archival materials instead. How did existing infrastructure of the bank...Read more
AO: As the paragraph below describes, the process of signing up to become a reader of the archives is quite
AO: It is a very interesting that within the report produced by Syracuse University professor, Robert Gregory, he...Read more
TM: This Guardian article describes the interesting predicament that is happening at Britain's archives especially in matters surrounding Britain's colonial past. This has interesting insights on the lives of the people it affects namely, the people who bore the brunt of Emperial Britain and the...Read more
AO: According to this excerpt from Carotenuto and Luongo (2005), KNA's work in the first few decades of the newly independent Kenya was to repatriate documents removed from Kenya by the outgoing...Read more
AO: The sentiments articulated below echo what my ongoing fieldwork has also revealed, particularly surprising given that I have been engaging with researchers in Kenya. Even amongst local and...Read more
AO: This quote outlines three reasons why Kenya embarked upon retrieving its archives, which were held overseas.
Perhaps among all African countries, Kenya is the only country
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AO: This article mentions Ukombozi library and the National Archives. It quotes Kimani Waweru, the in-charge at Ukombozi Library as saying: "There was a deliberate effort to ensure that the stories of these great men were not told. A few individuals who tried to research on...Read more
AO: This opening paragraph of the paper describes where the archives are situated within the Central Business District of Nairobi (CBD). Indeed, the everyday noises of passing matatus,...Read more
AO: This excerpt from Mnjama (2003) highlights how the Kenya National Archive in the late 1970s uniquely innovated on how to position the institution to be relevant for Kenyans. However, the...Read more
AO: This article by Robert Gregory was linked to from the Syracuse Libraries website as providing more context for how Syracuse University came to hold the microfilm collection of/for the Kenya National Archives.
Abstract: "With the...Read more