Erica Mann and an Intimate Source

Standing at the entrance of a dilapidated farm house near the Athi River in Kenya, the architect, town planner and activist Erica Mann (1917–2007), wearing a blue denim sunhat, silver eye shadow and fuchsia pink lipstick, muses about her humble beginnings in Africa (fig. 1). “It took about twenty y...

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Argitaratua izan da:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/abe,
Egile nagusia: Lee, Rachel
Formatua: Article ou chapitre numérique
Hizkuntza:Anglais
Argitaratua: ABE Journal 2014
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Sarrera elektronikoa:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Gaia:Standing at the entrance of a dilapidated farm house near the Athi River in Kenya, the architect, town planner and activist Erica Mann (1917–2007), wearing a blue denim sunhat, silver eye shadow and fuchsia pink lipstick, muses about her humble beginnings in Africa (fig. 1). “It took about twenty years before we became just ‘foreigners,’ not ‘bloody foreigners!’” she explains, referring to how the British colonisers had treated her and her family when they had first arrived in Kenya over 60 ...