Stephanie Sporn

1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Stephanie Sporn

   At Lévy Gorvy Dayan, Wangari Mathenge Puts Together the Pieces of a Self (opens the original)

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   When her father began training at the Commonwealth Secretariat—the central intergovernmental agency of the Commonwealth—Wangari Mathenge, then just six weeks old, moved with her family from Nairobi to London. Five years later, they returned to Kenya, where she remained for school. Yet Mathenge—now an artist who splits her time between Nairobi and Buckinghamshire, England—never quite felt like she belonged. “When I step into the British community, they say, ‘You’re a foreigner.’ W

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