ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses how these global celebrations collided with the British colonial experience and evolution in 1950s Kenya, and traces the convergence of two imperial trajectories at a particular colonial building in Mombasa, Kenya. The British were trying to order the colony, combating a truly negative image of East Africa at home, and setting up a museum at Fort Jesus Museum, a sixteenth-century Fort, seemed to be a step in the right direction. An intricate political development in the creation of a foundation in Portugal led to a sudden funding that made the restoration of Fort Jesus possible, allowing for an exaltation of this colonial legacy. The chapter recovers the history of the birth of the museum and analyses how the alliances, motives and protests at the museums foundation were shaped by questions of memory, politics and colonialism. Pereira made a trip to Kenya on the eve of MacMillan's 'winds of change', which would punch strongly the crumbling Portuguese empire.
