Nairobi, April 2 -- Invisible inventories' is an ingenious idea which ironically one can actually see until May 2.
A work in progress which ultimately will amount to one gigantic digital database, the project is a collaborative effort between the International Inventories Programme, The Nest and Shift Collectives, National Museums of Kenya, Weltkulturen Museum of Frankfurt am Main, and Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum of Cologne.
The ultimate goal, after assembling all the information about what elements of Kenyans' culture are located in which museums, cultural centres, or private collections abroad, is ideally the repatriation of all the material culture, art and artifacts removed during colonial times.
Not that the organisers of the project...