I wanted to share these photos of Khadambi Asalache's house. He was such a fascinating man. He grew up in Kenya and later moved to the UK to attend college. He worked his way through school teaching Swahili and doing architecture and garden landscaping, while he wrote poetry and novels.
A few of his novels and poems were published, however he did not make enough money to live comfortably and took a job with the Treasury in the late 1970's. He saved up enough money to buy the house below on 575 Wansdworth road in 1981. When he first bought the place it was in very bad repair and he spent his nights and weekend fixing the place up. He combined his love of Africa, traveling and poetry to transform it into the amazing house it is today.
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