'The Descendants': A canvas of Church’s colonial shadows and Kenyan identity

Elias Mungora pictured on April 23rd 2025 at the One-off Art Gallery in Nairobi. 

Photo credit: Billy Ogada | Nation Media Group

For the next running month, the Contemporary One Off Contemporary Art Gallery will be showcasing the works of Elias Mung’ora, a soft-spoken mixed media artist whose incoming exhibition The Descendants is a trek into the historical past of Scottish Missionaries in Kenya.

It is brilliantly evocative, poignant, nostalgic and raises more questions than answers which plays right into the style of the artist. It is an in-depth look at how the past influences the present and weaved beautifully through text, image and a brushstroke.

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