A social activist and scholar has challenged the government to consider establishing a museum in honour of the country’s founding president and freedom fighter Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, and other notable freedom heroes.
Prof. Karz Baldmann, a renowned United States of America (USA) social activist and scholar said Kenya risks losing important historical and national heritage information and collections, by failing to collect and preserve important records, images, writings, speeches, books and artifacts about Mzee Jomo Kenyatta among other freedom heroes like Tom Mboya, Ronald Ngala, Masinde Muluro, and Jaramogi Odinga.
He noted this on Friday at Egerton University, Nakuru Town Campus, when he delivered a public lecture to students attached to the faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the university, titled: The Importance of Historical Political Information to Democratic and Social Change in a Developing Nation.
“If we closely observe the roles these political leaders played in shaping the current democratic and social atmospheres in Kenya, then we realize that there is still a lot we can learn from them in shaping our modern democratic and social change desires. It would be good therefore if the government establishes special museums in their honour and for future inspirations,” he noted.