Amongst the last known photos of Col. Grogan at his Muthaiga home in 1959.
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Mr Bruce MacKenzie, the Kenya Minister for Agriculture after Independence at the 1964 Royal Show.
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the Stanley in 1912.
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1974, a sportsman van on moi avenue
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Ford transit, They used to operate around Hamza. Ofafa Maringo - Makadara upto the early 90s, zilikua zimejengwana chuma ya reli, ngumu kaa diamond, guess what would have happened was this fossil to be involved in a head-on with a modern car
1973 Extelcom building, Nairobi
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90% OF TALKERS WERE NOT YET BORN
Mombasa
Fort Jesus 1902
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Kitale Hotel, Kitale Kenya 1959
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Was owned by the late Masinde Muliro until the govt unleashed banks and other creditors on him after he supported JM Kariuki in 1975.
Kaptagat Arms Hotel. Eldoret Kenya 1952
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@Tarantinoh leta historia ya hii place, former owner and current owner if its still operational
Brooke Bond Hotel Kericho, 1950s
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- Kenyatta Hospital, Nairobi
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1973 The Panafric, Nairobi.
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1921 Government House, Nairobi
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Another picture from the 1920s, courtesy of HistoryKe
Then in 1933 it was extensively remodelled into what is now State House.
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In 1959,Peter Mbiyu Koinange moved to Ghana from his London exile.President Nkrumah had invited Koinange to take up the post of Director of East,Central and South Africa in Ghana’s Bureau of African Affairs.He spent one year there before taking a Pan African Freedom Movement post in Tanzania.
Mbiyu was the son of colonial chief Koinange wa Mbiyu.
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Delamere (Now Kenyatta) Avenue, Nairobi in the 1930s.Those three buildings still stand today.
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The one on the left used to be known as Rhodesia house.
(who knows the connection with Lorho hse)
ikumbi granary)
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Murang’a, before Boyes and Francis Hall became the first Whites there, was ruled by Chieflings whose spheres were as large as today’s constituency.
Karuri ruled what we’d call Kangema + Mathioya + North Kiharu formerly known as Mbiri.
Wang’ombe ruled what is today’s Othaya. Othaya neighbours Kangema/Mathioya.
Wang’ombe wa Ihura and Karuri wa Gakure were perennial turf enemies each with a warrior infantry that raided each other’s turf for undisputed leadership.
Karuri operated from Tuthu, 6500ft Amsl and 40 Km from to day’s Murang’a town which is about 4500ft Amsl. He could see his “empire” from such perch.
During one such war between Karuri’s and Wang’ombe warriors, Boyes happened. He took sides and armed with a gun the mercenary could have tipped the scales either way.
Karuri moved fast. He sent out a message to Francis Hall at Fort Smith, Kikuyu and invited him to his Empire. Hall obliged, arrested Boyes charging him with “impersonating Government”.
Fort Hall was built and Karuri wa Gakure installed as the de jure CHIEF of his former empire. He was to report for briefings periodically from Tuthu to Fort Hall, a 40 KM journey.
He then invited the Roman Catholic CONSOLATA MISSION to Tuthu to strategies modern education. Wang’ombe was aced out!
Walking with his troupe to Fort Hall, Karuri had to break his journey halfway at a place called KOIMBI or WEITHAGA near KAHUHIA GIRLS. Again on his way back, he’d break his journey for a night or two. During these stops, he’d give his BARAZA orders to his subjects. These included such as granaries design, hygiene, anti-FGM, burying of the dead, pit latrines and trenching of gradient farmlands.
The home he stooped at was owned by a great wealthy man called MAKERI.
Makeri was approached to deputize Karuri but he declined. A deal was struck. His first wife, Wangu, a charismatic queenly woman, would be made a proxy SUB CHIEF so that Makeri’s homestead would become the HOUSE OF POWER. Known as NGATHA, as first wives or women of substance are known in native Kikuyuland, Wangu took up her commission with gusto to the chagrin of many men who however knew that they owed Makeri many favours.
Wangu was a sub-Chief for about 5 to 7 years.
About the same time in Kilifi, Me Katilili was raising hell. Wangu and Me Katilili were contemporaries.
Did Wangu have a fling with Wang’ombe? If she did, Karuri would have had her sacked pronto. But if Wang’ombe was equally made a Chief like Karuri, then Wang’ombe and Wangu would have become colonial workmates under Hall. Anything goes.
Daudi Kabaka and Kamaru.
Angalia mjukuu wake.
These vans are still the most reliable all over the world.
Although owners of the Mercedes Benz sprinter van may disagree.
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smart sana, is there a longer one size ya Merc Sprinter.
Ford ni ndume ya kazi