Let me just start by saying this.

I love African art.

Everywhere I travel, I make sure to hit the local museum and I always go right to the

African art section.

I just love to see the work of my ancestors.

Now, I'm not an expert on African art, but I do know a good collection when I see one.

The Matt and Manhattan has a good one, and so does the Jacques-Shirac Museum in Paris.

But recently, I found out about this one collection in central Kenya that's now on my bucket

list.

It's one of the greatest collections of African art in the world.

When I started looking into this collection, I was surprised to find out that it's not

an museum.

It's in this place called the African Heritage House, just south of Nairobi.

I was also surprised to find out that it was collected mainly by one guy.

But the biggest surprise of all was this guy wasn't Kenyan.

He wasn't even African.

Yeah, a white dude from Colorado is behind one of the greatest collections of African art

in the world.

I'm Baudelaire, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible,

and wondrous places.

Today, the story of Alan Dunnevin and the collection in the African Heritage House.

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