@Meria Mata si unaruka ruka all over the place with this TBT… If you allow me nilete ujuaji kidogo,I would suggest that you pick an era,a period and run away with it…
Keep it up lakini.
:D:D:D…the biggest bone of contention was to determine whether 'iyo ni juu au si juu" when a high shot was made and went above the goalkeeper…coz “goalpost” ilikuwa ni mawe mbili
Goalie akikosa kuruka high enough (depending on who was loudest among the two teams) inakuwa goal or no goal.
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D…good ol’ days
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AND SOMEWHERE IN OUR RUGGED PAST…
New York Times JAN. 26, 1964
BRITISH AID KENYA AS HER SOLDIERS MUTINY OVER PAY;
Third Army Revolt in Week Occurs in East Africa—Nairobi Asks Help; TROOPS CLASH AT CAMP; London Sends Commandos—Also Lands Forces in Tanganyika After Plea
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan. 24—A barracks revolt broke out late tonight in Kenya’s army the third such flare‐up this week in East Africa.
The unrest, which followed army uprisings in Tanganyika and Uganda, came while Britain was rushing troops and other forces here.
Military sources said the mutiny was over the amount of pay received by African soldiers. Dissatisfaction over low pay was a cause of Monday’s army mutiny in Tanganyika and yesterday’s strike by soldiers in Uganda.
[British commandos from the aircraft carrier Centaur landed at Dar es Salaam early Saturday to help the Tanganyika Government regain control of mutinous troops.]
The Kenyan troops, according to first reports, mutinied at a camp near Nairobi and at Nakuru, 100 miles northwest of the capital.
The mutineers were members of the Kenya Rifles, the country’s 2,650‐man army.
Elements of the British Royal Horse Artillery were sent to Nakuru, headquarters of the 11th Battalion of the Kenya Rifles. They seized the armory, which the mutineers had invaded to get weapons and ammunition, and an officers’ mess, where British officers and men attached to the African unit had gathered.
One African soldier was killed and one wounded. An African riding past on a bicycle was also wounded.
Late reports said the situation at Nakuru was under control but was tense.
Within minutes of the mutiny at the camp at Langata, three miles west of Nairobi, British troops fanned out to strategic points in the city. They blocked off the radio station, the telephone exchange, the overseas cable office, important government buildings and Embakasi Airport, East Africa’s major international air terminal.
More than 2,100 British troops were involved in the build‐up designed to guard against further insurrections in East Africa. The build‐up was in response to a request for help from Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta.
The build‐up included British land, sea and air forces. As darkness fell the Royal Navy carrier Centaur reached Kenya’s Indian Ocean port of Mombasa. The carrier had aboard 600 Royal Marine commandos and an unspecified number of jet aircraft.
In addition, 700 British commandos were on their way in an airlift from Britain with 75,000 pounds of equipment and 20 vehicles.
Four British warships, including the Centaur, were lying off Kenya and Tanganyika. The others were the frigate Rhyl, the survey ship Owen and a destroyer as yet unidentified.
A United States destroyer, the Manley, also was lying offshore. The Manley had rushed to the area from Mogadiscio, capital of Somalia.
About 120 members of the Staffordshire Regiment in full battle dress were taken off the Rhyl and flown to Nairobi, the staging area for the build‐up.
Kenya announced, meanwhile, that she would increase her own army by 1,000 men in a recruiting campaign to start within a few weeks.
The request for British military help was the second in two days. Prime Minister Milton A. Obote of Uganda called in British troops based here last night to protect his country’s airfields, communications and other strategic services.
He acted after about 350 members of the Uganda Rifles based at Jinja had detained their British officers and Uganda’s Minister of Home Affairs. The minister, Felix Onama, was held in a guard room for an hour by the troops, who were “striking” for higher pay.
The two countries requested British help under agreements reached when they became independent of Britain. Uganda became independent in October, 1962, and Kenya last Dec. 12.
Mr. Kenyatta announced his plan for increasing the army after meeting with the British commander of Kenya’s troops, Maj. Gen. Ian H. Freeland.
He said he would establish a committee to examine “certain anomalies” in the pay of Kenya’s African soldiers. The committee is to report back to him by March 1.
The slow promotion of Africans and low pay were responsible for a mutiny of about 1,350 men of Tanganyika’s army on Monday. They were incensed because British officers still commanded their units two years after Tanganyika had gained her independence.
cc: @MortyTuumbo
what you talking about scampaka?
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On that stool is the Rotary ELC 523 telephone set that connected the president to his 9 provincial commissioners country wide. He was up to date with the goings on country wide
Hehehe… I am suggesting that maybe pick for example the 60s and remember it in its wholeness and entirety.
Kama leo,Titanic,Bonney M,Narc…we get confused sir.
Titanic sio yangu, i dwell on Kenyan history only.
hio suggestion yako itakua ngumu kutimiza
Government Road Nairobi, Kenya 1916
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Holy family church, 1910 Nairobi,
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This is the Holy Family Church on the site of the present Catholic cathedral/basilica. It was demolished shortly after the cathedral was completed in 1963. This photo posted by Ron Leese shows the two buildings.
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1960s Nairobi City Scape.
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which land marks can you identify
1937, Prince of Wales (Nairobi) School from the driveway.
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Sergeant and three Privates of the King’s African Rifles
1902
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Kenya (part of the British East Africa Protectorate) was declared a British colony on July 23, 1920 and Major-General Sir Edward Northey (pictured) was appointed as the first Governor of the British colony of Kenya.
Lady Northey Nursery School along state house road (I think it has since changed names) is named after his wife. The same Nursery school, adjacent to state house that Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta attended.
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Dr Richard Leakey making an address at the funeral of George Adamson in Kenya after he was murdered by Somali bandits in 1989.
On 20 August 1989, George Adamson was murdered near his camp in Kora National Park, by Somali bandits, when he went to the rescue of his assistant and a young European tourist in the Kora National Park. He was 83 years old.
But according to Mr Tony Fitzjohn, the man whospent 18 years with Mr Adamson in the Kora wild, they endured police harassment meant to frustrate their conservation work and force them out of the park.
“We were regularly ordered to drive to Hola to show our documents and permits to police, our radio communication system was confiscated and our camp was raided,” he says in his book Born Wild.
Mr Fitzjohn believes that Mr Adamson’s was murdered to stop his conservation work.
The Briton cites an incident in August 1987 where he was arrested and charged with running a tourist camp without a permit.
“ I had no option but to plead guilty to the charges and pay the fine,” he says.
In another incident, Mr Fitzjohn was arrested by rangers who were known to him and beaten up as his staff watched. He was then driven and locked up at Hola Police Station for alleged trespass in Kora yet he was Adamson’s assistant.
“On the way, the rangers told me that they would kill George if I didn’t leave Kora quickly. I was desperate as there was no access to any telephone to ask for help but luckily I was freed on bail the next morning” the book reads. His permit to keep leopards was revoked and he had to flee to Tanzania in 1988.
Mr Adamson who had put Kenya on the global conservation map through his pioneering work of rehabilitating orphaned lions in the seventies, was shot dead by bandits on August 20, 1989.
He and his wife, Joy Adamson are best known through their captivating movie, Born Free and best-selling book with the same title, which is based on the true story of Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lioness cub they had raised in Mwingi and later released into the wild.
Mr Fitzjohn said the invasion of Kora by pastoralists who were involved in poaching and banditry had tacit approval of top authorities.
“It was apparent that the wildlife authorities, the police and the army watched as Somali herders took over Kora killing animals and reducing the park to barren bush” the book reads.
“The situation became tense after the 1988 murder of British tourist Julie Ward. Dr Richard Leakey the then KWS Director and his brother Philip who was an Assistant minister for Wildlife admitted that there was nothing they could do to help us,” he recalls.
However, Mr Fitzjohn writes that former Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, then a young MP for Kitui North which bordered Kora was concerned about the deteriorating situation.
“He personally intervened to have the then Commissioner of Police Philip Kilonzo send a team of elite GSU officers to protect Mr Adamson,” he says.
But the officers were later withdrawn and Mr Adamson killed a week later. “Some characters in government never understood the importance of conservation work to Kenya’s tourism,” said Mr Musyoka in an interview then.
source: www.nation.co.ke
1936, after demolishing the old courthouse. This is the site for the current Imenti house at the junction of Kenyatta and moi Avenue.
The building to the left now houses Equity Bank, and to the mid right, that plot is now empty.
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The funeral procession of senior chief waruhiu. The event that finally ‘forced’ Britain’s hand.
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His death changed the course of our history