In practice: Cave Bureau on a museum for the Anthropocene Share Add to Bookmarks
Reusing architectural spaces of slavery at the Shimoni caves in Kwale, Kenya, brings African and Black narratives of enslavement back to the surface in the Anthropocene
On a hot and humid day in January 1721, a trail of tired, chained and weak kidnapped men, women and children from the East African interior lands walk towards the Shimoni caves. They trudge on in terror, blind to what lies ahead after an arduous three-day journey. Confused about their kidnappers, they silently wonder about their families, as they worry where this journey will lead them. They arrive and descend into the cave, unaware that this is the last time they will catch a glimpse of Africa, never to set foot on their homeland again.