Kawira Mwirichia (Photo: Facebook) The LGBTQI+ community in Kenya is mourning the recent death of one of its most noteworthy members, the artist and curator, Kawira Mwirichia. Trained as a civil engineer, Mwirichia was an eminent queer artist in Kenya, also having completed art training at the Institute of Advanced Technology.
Mwirichia’s work spanned a range of disciplines, including sculpture, drawing, painting and graphic design. Perhaps her most famous work, which also drew the attention of the international art world, is her project To Revolutionary Type Love.
To Revolutionary Type Love (later called Kanga Pride features a series of kangas – Kenyan colourful printed cotton fabric that can be worn, among other uses, as a headscarf or