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Photography against the grain: rethinking the colonial archive in Kenyan museums

This article revisits the representation of the state of emergency in Kenya, focusing on two instances where the colonial photographic archive has been worked against the grain: the National Museum of Kenya (Nairobi) and the Lari Memorial Peace Museum. I argue that these two examples effectively destabilize the colonial archive's conventionally reiterated truths in ways that afford the possibility for the viewer to think ‘otherwise'. Located in distinctive museal spaces (national and community-based) from which their operations draw further potency, both institutions conversely offer ways to reimagine the museum itself as archive.