| Summary: | 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. On the one hand, 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. On the other hand, 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 also for an exaltation of this colonial legacy.
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