Comments on: Anselm Croze: Glassmaker and Dream Merchant

By: herbert elima

herbert elima — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:10:09 +0000

error not 60 inches but 60 centimetres!
apologies.glad i read through that.

By: herbert elima

herbert elima — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:08:57 +0000

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By: Sheila Scales

Sheila Scales — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:50:15 +0000

This is on a personal note… I “played with” Anselm as a small child when he came to the US to visit his grandparents. I remember he and his family well :) Just wondering if Anselm has an email address I could write to him?

By: Word Salad Poetry Magazine

Word Salad Poetry Magazine — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:37:41 +0000

Dear Genenation Kenya,

Congratulations from Word Salad!

Congratulations! Walter Keyombe,a Kenyan poet and a budding peace activist/Maker.Has for the first time, been accepted and published in the latest issue of
Word
Salad poetry magazine in the US.

Sincerely, The Co-Editors of Word Salad

Here’s the link to his world peace poem:

http://wsmagazine.net/PoetryMagazine/this-editions-poems/3-vol-xiv-no-ii/15-i-have-a-poem-by-walter-keyombe.html

By: Kitengela Glass Photo Essay : Generation Kenya

Kitengela Glass Photo Essay : Generation Kenya — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:05:55 +0000

[...] Kitengela Glass uses recycled glass to create new objects of function and art. I came across barrels of broken glass, separated into colours, during one of my recent visits. After sorting, the glass is melted down and is in the hands of the many talented craftsmen at Kitengela. We at GenerationKenya were very impressed with the ingenuity and environmental sensibility at work here. As a photographer I found the barrels of sparking glass, each glowing a different shade or colour, to be perfect subject material. [...]

By: margaretta wa gacheru

margaretta wa gacheru — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:37:44 +0000

Excellent story on Anselm Croze except for one critical thing: how could Mwangi forget to make mention of Nani Croze, Anselm’s mother who actually started the glass-blowing works at Kitengela. Nani started the jua kali network at Kitengela and sent her son for training. I cant believe that the author was so insensitive and so male-oriented that he said Anselm came to kenya with his father, but he failed to mention his mother who he also came with. Nani is the artist, not Harvey. Nani is the dynamo, who actually built Kitengela from nothing. Such one sided writing is imbalanced and presents a distorted view of the art world in Kenya, including Nani’s contribution to providing employment and training to Kenya’s future indigenous glass blowers. It was her vision that made all this happen. Anselm may not have mentioned his mother to the writer, but good journalists did for the background and historical context of a story. I personally wrote a story on Nani that The East African kindly gave three pages to a couple of years ago, but the background information was available if the research for this essay had been done. No matter. It was a good story as far as it went.