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Cost hinders recovery of Kenyan artefacts from UK

Kenya's oldest Identity card(ID)and current, displayed at Museum where Kenyan traditional artefacts were displayed at Uhuru garden's Museum, on July 25, 2022. [Edward Kiplimo,Standard]

Kenya is revisiting its past efforts to repatriate her colonial archive and artefacts stuck in London's museums and personal archives.

This week, top officials from the Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Heritage visited the London National archive and the British Museum on a double mission; to explore ways of having records digitised, and seek repatriation of artefacts.

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