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#HistoryKeThread MawingoThe name of Gabriel Prudhomme (pictured) wouldn’t ring familiar with most Kenyans. Not with many historians, either. But Gabriel was a European living in Kenya in the 1930s. He

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#HistoryKeThread: Mwangeka’s Blood This first pic is of a view taken from high up in the Taita Hills. In the late 19th century, Mekatilili’s Giriama were not the only community

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#HistoryKeThread: Once Upon Wanjohi “....while I could easily pick out a hundred Kikuyu who, mixed with an equal number of Maasai, could not be told from the latter, even by

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#HistoryKeThread Once upon a time in 1889, the hinterland of what would later become the territory of Kenya was hit by rinderpest. The scourge reportedly wiped out up to 90%

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#HistoryKeThread: Mutiny Of The Panyako As #WW1 raged in Europe, the British sought to recruit more Africans into the King’s African Rifles (KAR) . There was need by the British

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#HistoryKEThread: Is History About To SAP Us Again?In 1963, after more than a decade’s episode of violent struggle for freedom, Kenya attained her independence. Then in 1991, roughly 28 years

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