Nairobi, March 22 -- Patricia Bifani came to Kenya in 1974, the wife of an environmental economist, Paulo, who had come to work with UNEP, the United Nations Environment Program. Yet this mother of five was much more than a professional man's wife.
Patricia is a fine artist trained in Chile, Spain, and France, and a woman who held her first exhibition in Kenya in the late Seventies at the formerly named French Cultural Centre (now Alliance Francaise).
The Chilean artist had left her homeland in the early part of the decade after the democratically - elected leader Salvador Allende had been overthrown in a coup d'etat orchestrated by a General named Pinochet who'd been backed by Western forces.
Politics aside, I found Patricia's style of ...