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Alan Donovan: A journey through Africa and the city he made home

The African Heritage House, in Mlolongo, Nairobi, was designed by Alan Donovan. [Gilbert Otieno, Standard]

It is late 1969. A second-hand Volkswagen Combi hurtles through the Sahara, braving the blinding sands around Timbuktu and the gusty winds of Djenne in Mali.

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