A battalion of the Kings’s African Rifles standing outside the Tsavo Railway Station during World War 1
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another group settled near the administration offices at Eldama Ravine. Idi was said to have had an aunt there.
President Moi attended most international matches. Behind him is minister Kenneth Matiba and former commissioner of Police Philip Kilonzo,
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kuna siku moja kiatu yake ilifly with the ball and his exposed sock was torn. hakukua na aibu coz he was a senior bashara like @Okwonkwo
Blue Post Hote, Thika. In the 1920s.
The hotel is immortalised in Elspeth Huxley’s book The Flame Trees of Thika in which she writes: “It consisted of a low-roofed, thatched grass hut whose verandah posts were painted blue and gave the place its name”.
Long before white settlers broke ground in Kenya, the area today known as Thika Town was a stage for many internicine battles between the Maasai on the one hand, and the Kikuyu and Kambas on the other.
The Thika and Chania rivers formed a natural boundary amongst these three tribes, the Kikuyu to the north, the Kambas to the east and the Maasai to the south. The Maasai outnumbered the other two tribes and were ferocious warriors; unbeatable in the plains and lower ground.
However, their war tactics were ineffective in forest and mountainous areas. Each time the Maasai raided their adversaries for livestock and women they would win easily, walking away with their spoils as the Kikuyu and Kamba retreated to the forest and surrounding hills.
The only saviour would be an outbreak of disease or famine which would reduce the Maasai population significantly and consequently their strength, but then as soon as their numbers recovered, they would be back for more of the same.
In any event, it must be remembered that the Maasai were nomadic pastoralists while the Kikuyu and Kamba were crop farmers, hence the different behaviour patterns. Many of the Kikuyu who died during the skirmishes were buried in a mass grave which can be identified by a mound near the confluence of the two rivers.
It is widely thought that this was the origin of the name “Guthika” which means “to bury” and shortened to Thika, giving the town its name.
During the late 1880s, there were serious outbreaks of rinderpest and smallpox which affected cattle and people respectively. The Maasai appear to have come off worse in this episode as their livestock and people were decimated leaving the area south of the Chania free for occupation by the Kikuyu, who themselves were escaping epidemics believing they were the work of evil spirits.
Given this scenario, it is no wonder that the white settlers believed that this land was unoccupied when they ventured north of Nairobi in the 1890s.
Blue Post Hotel was built in 1908 and consisted of random undressed stone walls with coarse mortar joints, a makuti thatched roof on timber pole trusses and a rough cement screed floor.
The hotel served as a post office for farmers on the surrounding plantations. The hotel was built by Captain Ward who is described by Huxley as “a military-looking, sprucely-dressed man with a bald head and a long moustache, who had the misfortune to be very deaf.
Africans were not allowed to patronise the hotel. When the hotel was built, a military camp existed on this site since 1902, to guarantee safe passage for settlers travelling between Nairobi and Nyeri.
Captain Ward sold the hotel to Edward Sergent who relinquished ownership in 1978. Today, the hotel is owned by a prominent Kenyan family.
Over the years many outbuildings have been added but the hotel still retains a rustic, outdoor character. The original “hut” is still the main bar known as “Sergent Bar” and the “blue posts” are covered in hemp and timber as patrons now arrive in more modern, motorised transport.
Today, the hotel boasts 51 rooms, conference facilities, a children’s playground, horse riding, and nature walk. For ornithologists, there is an array of beautiful bird life. The hotel overlooks the breathtaking Chania Falls with its thunderous white spray rushing over black rocks.
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The young Jomo Kenyatta with his son (Probably Peter Muigai)
Mzee Kenyatta as a water meter reader, circa 1924. Sometimes white settlers, not believing that there was a black water meter reader, would set their dogs on him when he came by in a bicycle to read the water meter.
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this is a favorite na watu wa hii tuliona brigade, eti waliona wakati Jomo alikua akisoma meter
Ras Makonnen, father of Haile Selassie I, in 1902
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Ras @culture Ras @wildfrank receive greetings from i and i Ras Meria
Sir Halford John Mackinder the man who named the 3 highest peaks on Mt.Kenya in 1899
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Batian, Nelion and Lenana. How gracious of a white man to honour a Laibon?
And there’s Mackinders camp below the peaks . cc: @amun
Wahome Mutahi (c) performs in he play ‘Wangü Wa Makeri’ in the early '90s
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MHSRIP
Gitobu Imanyara
1966: President Jomo Kenyatta unveils the plaque for the Kenya Science Teachers College (KSTC) in Nairobi.
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Jonah Anguka with wife Susan and four children from left, William, Kenneth, Kevin and Tony after a church service in 1994.
Jonah Anguka was a Kenyan author and former District Commissioner, Nakuru, known as the only person to date to have been tried for the murder of Dr Robert Ouko, Kenya’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, who was shot dead on 13 February 1990.
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My grandma told me she used the ship several times with my grandpa while traveling to Kampala.
Memories are made of this
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i once had all the books in the PICHADITHI series
Idi Amin wachana na yeye…at Larnet whenever he was seen with a female visitor and queried by his mates he would respond ‘ni dada yangu’ hence the nickname Dada… Idi Amin Dada…so ata ya auntie:D
INGINE HII HAPA
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aliingiza mapua tu but soon the elephant was in the hse and the man found himself outside. Tafakali hayo
:D:D:D:D:D
It is indeed Peter one of the two children he had with the real First Lady Wahu
.Expatriates watching Cheetahs eat their kill during a game drive safari from their Volkswagen Kombi UN registered plates 40UN4K that has front opening viewing split windshields.The photo was taken in September 1968.
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These Kombi are now sought after icons fetching very high prices at Auctions.
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wapi jumakubafu? opps, @jumabekavu
i saw him earlier today akisema ES, VC ameishiwa na material.
siku ile material ya TBT itaisha … ama wacha tu
Kidogo niulise Nani huyo alikuwa anakamua Mali Ya Obama