Memories are made of this
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@Guru please nenda hapo catholic bookshop uniangalilie hichi kitabu
Kalonzo=Gege Biuki
Batu=Matiang’i
:D:D:D:D
In the native Kiembu language we call them NGÎA.
Our setbook back then in highschool. Characters still fresh in my mind.
Kamalar na Binti wa mfalme wa China.
This week in 1980 Bob Marley shared a stage with The Commodores at Madison Square Garden…
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cc: @wildfrank @culture
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I don’t want wait in vain …
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So who remembers these? The latter 3.5 inch floppy disk if I remember correctly could only hold, wait for it… a whopping 1.4 MB of data. To put that in context you would need like 4 or 5 of them to store a reasonable quality 3 minute song mp3. SMH, do they even produce these anymore?
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Nairobi National Park. 1940. Hunting for ostrich eggs.
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Vasco Da Gama Street_Mombasa_1930
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Driving a Peugeot 504,Kenyan duo Hugh lionnet and Phillip Hechle dodge zebras during 1973 safari rally
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Masai worriors wave as the female crew drives during 1966 safari rally
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Kikuyu area C. 1901.
Moving a Steam Locomotive Engine down the Kikuyu escarpment to the Rift Valley Floor.
Twenty miles or so beyond Nairobi in Kikuyu country, railway engineers established a temporary junction and siding station while they supervised work on a permanent track down the side of the Rift Valley escarpment. This undertaking involved the construction of eight viaducts with 1,200 tons of steel. As a temporary expedient, a lift was built at Escarpment Station to compensate for a difference in levels of 1,523 feet. Locomotives and wagons were lowered directly down the steep slope on ropes and pulleys attached to a steam-powered winch. George Whitehouse’s remarkable ingenuity, based on the principle of a funicular railway, save a huge amount of time. In the eighteen months the lift operated without accident between May 1900 and November 1901, work progressed with speed along the floor of the Rift Valley. By the time the viaducts had been built and the permanent line brought into operation, the laying of tracks had advanced 170 miles beyond the escarpment.
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Entrance to Nairobi National Park_C.1950s
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the first known pic of @FieldMarshal CouchP
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VJ parade on Delamere Avenue Nairobi Kenya 15th August 1945
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for 1000 likes, @Mosa tell us what VJ day means
Osa Johnson, an American explorer riding a Zebra near Nairobi in 1930.
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Osa Johnson enjoys a bath at Ngong near Nairobi. The water was collected overnight in a hole dug in the ground, as a woman holds her towel in 1923.
Photographers, explorers, naturalists and authors, Martin and Osa Johnson journeyed across East and Central Africa, the South Pacific Islands and British North Borneo studying wildlife and documenting their trips between 1917 and 1936. When they returned home they had over 3,000 photos and 150,000 feet of film.
The duo, who were keen hunters, took their knowledge of far-away lands back home and shared their experiences with the world.
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