Eight minutes of empire cosplaying as anthropology—bring popcorn and your critical theory hat.
Propaganda film produced by the British Colonial Film Unit depicting everyday life in Nairobi, Kenya.
Production
British Film Unit craft—slicker than it has any right to be.
Direction
Every frame screams 'we totally belong here, trust us bro.'
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Colonial Film Unit produced hundreds of these 'educational' shorts for British and African audiences, often with different edits to control messaging by region.
Nairobi was founded in 1899 as a railway depot for the Uganda Railway—by 1950, the city the film celebrates as organic was barely fifty years old and built on expelled Maasai land.
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