A steel sculpture and the new Kenya constitution

 

Acclaimed Kenyan artist Sebastian Kiarie anticipated the surprise of the vendor when he visited a neighbourhood hardware store with an order for hundreds of machetes one morning in 2016. Mass buying of pangas was chillingly reminiscent of the atrocities committed during the incendiary 2007 political clashes which nearly fragmented Kenya. The shell-shocked shop owner only agreed to sell his entire stock of pangas for the year because the artist is well-known in Chunga Mali off the Nairobi-Naivasha road at Limuru.