African Heritage House Day Tour

The African Heritage House, overlooking the Nairobi National Park is a combination of the mud architectures from across Africa. It is the work of American-born Alan Donovan who arrived in Africa on July 4 1967 with the US State Department as a relief officer during the Nigerian-Biafra war.

Alan resigned his post in 1969, bought a Volkswagen bus in Paris, and travelled through the Sahara Desert to Nigeria. It is during his African odyssey that he encountered the magnificent mud mosques of Mali and other examples of African pre-colonial mud architecture. He then drove across the Congo to Kenya, arriving in Nairobi in March 1970. It is these mud architecture that later inspired African Heritage House.