Alan Donovan, 83, who died peacefully Sunday morning, December 5 at his Mlolongo home, was a champion of African arts and culture for more than half a century.
His passing leaves pending many cultural projects and plans he had devised since his revival from a six-month stay in the intensive care unit in a coma in 2018. It also leaves his African Heritage House with its treasure trove of Pan African art, textiles, and artifacts in limbo without the cultural caregiver who invigorated the Kenyan art scene since 1970 with the establishment of the African Heritage Pan African Gallery. This was followed by the African Heritage House.
