This photo with the caption 'Kikuyu woman carrying string bag and baby' is one of fifteen photos in the book 'Beyond the Kikuyu Curtain' by Helen Virginia Blakeslee. Published in 1956 by Moody Press Chicago. The copyright is held by The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (1/5)

The perspective of the Daily Express on the Mau Mau rebellion, in 1953 or 1954.

Cabo Verde holding the European and World champions to draws in normal time with a team of journeymen pulled from across the diaspora has to be one of the all time great world cup performances.

Italian Carrara marble, buffalo sculpture for Raila mausoleum. Business Daily 🤔

Early map of Africa from Martin Behaim's Globe 1492. Six places listed are Sierra Leone, Zanzibar, Ethiopia, Egypt, Atlas Mountains and Cape Verde. The last is in the wrong place as they are islands. A Simple History of East Africa by Herbert Brittain and PJG Ripley. My primary school history book😣

Captain! Guatemala coffee by Anchor Coffee Co.

CMS Rabai mission house. Amy and Archibald Shaw lived in it in March 1883. Originally built and occupied by Johannes Rebmann. " ... a most charming little cottage, covered with creepers, and commands a capital view through a glen cut in the hills.” [Through Masai Land by Joseph Thomson (page 28)]

Young Christian men from Tanganyika (then German East Africa) - Nasa, Nera, or Chamgassa. They were attending training for teachers and evangelists at the Africa Inland Mission station in Kijabe. Photo taken at steps at the front of the Kijabe church, in late 1915 or early 1916, by TR Westervelt.

'Flight Path: Son of Africa to Warrior-Diplomat' by Scott Gration. His time in Kenya was full of highs and lows. Admitted at Gertrude's Children's Hospital on Muthaiga Road in 1953. 29 years later was resident at the far end of the same road as US Ambassador. (1/2)

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Jason Mosley@jasonmosley.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 26 May, when our very own Norman Aselmeyer & his colleague Saitabau Lulunken present their research on: 'The Osinoni War: A new history of the Kedong Massacre (1895)' *Hybrid event* Details & webinar registration: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/cd4211...

Quite the random sight on a Sunday afternoon in Nairobi!

On Oct 1, 1902 the East Africa Protectorate was subdivided into 7 provinces; Seyidiye, Tanaland, Jubaland, Ukamba, Kenia, Naivasha, and Kisumu. The provinces were further sub-divided into 16 districts. EA and Uganda Protectorates Gazette Vol. IV No. 70 Mombasa October 1, 1902

Now reading 'Colonial Transformation of Kenya; The Kamba, Kikuyu, and Maasai from 1900-1939.' by Robert L. Tignor.

Sorry, I missed the key quote

Now reading 'Kenya: From Colonization to Independence, 1888-1970', by R. Mugo Gatheru. Published in 2005 but seems that Mugo resident in Sacramento, California did the research in Kenya in the 1970s.

From @theathletic.com: Sunday in London was the greatest day in marathon history. These are how the elements came together to result in a record-breaking day. nyti.ms/4d6oCD0

Super shoes and perfect conditions – how Sabastian Sawe broke the two-hour mark at the London Marathon

In a historically quick marathon, Sabastian Sawe broke the world record and Tigst Assefa lowered her women’s-only world record

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Classic Coffee by Nyeri Hill Farm. Arabica single origin coffee, medium roast. "Established in 1914 by the Consolata Missionaries, Nyeri Hill Farm is one of the oldest and most respected coffee farms in Kenya."

I was running errands with my youngest daughter, when I saw this car in Lavington Mall in Nairobi. It still has the Obama 08 bumper sticker, the year she was born!

During the Easter weekend it was a joy to visit my uncle Munyua (married to my mother's sister) - the great grandson of Waiyaki wa Hinga. I later sent my uncle two appendixes of Brian McIntosh's 1969 Edinburgh University PhD thesis - The Scottish Mission in Kenya 1891-1923. (1/4)

John Spencer, in 1985, ended his book with a bold conclusion. "Without KAU, one can not understand the modern history of Kenya." He also made the observation that "... KANU, like KAU, was and is rooted in conservatism." I have enjoyed reading KAU, I have a better understanding of Kenyan politics.

Kambui mission station, established by Gospel Missionary Society in 1902. Missionaries started a school whose alumni include Wanyoike Kamawe (1902-1910), Harry Thuku (1907-1911), Waruhiu Kung’u (1902-1905), Magugu Waweru (1917-1919) and Mugo Gatheru (1941-1944) 3rd Kenyan university student in USA.

Read the new review by Kenneth King of “#NormanLeys and #SettlerColonialism in #Kenya” (@merlinpress.bsky.social) by Colin Leys: cup.org/40U2lBt

'Hacienda El Progreso' by Café Las Flores. Arabica coffee from Nicaragua.

CAF's decision was so absurd that it went unnoticed that they released it at 22:49 Cairo time (20:49 UK, 21:49 Morocco). (Which is something they usually do btw, you would think their HQ is in Miami). Burying the absurd in the absurd.

RAF have a 2023 paper on their own 1950s bombing campaign in Kenya I'm not sure many Kenyans would agree on the specific findings and conclusions, about the success of bombing people into submission, which is actually my point www.raf.mod.uk/what-we-do/c...

Alan Lester@alanlester.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1/2 In the 1920s and 1930s Britain tried to control opposition to its mandated rule in the Middle East and NW India through air power. The RAF justified its role after WWI by exaggerating the effectiveness of imperial ‘aerial policing’. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

David Beal on Docteur Nico, the pioneering guitarist of Congolese rumba https://go.nybooks.com/4s6OsvO

The Docteur Is In | David Beal

In January 1960 Brussels hosted a “Round Table” conference of Congolese and European leaders to negotiate the future of the Belgian Congo. Anticolonial

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"On 1 March 1926, the Alliance High School, Kikuyu, opened quietly without pomp or ceremony." On hand to receive the first 16 students that day, were George Grieve, the Acting Principal, his wife Annie and Solomon Kinuthia, the carpenter. The History of the Alliance High School J Stephen Smith (1/2)

Harry Thuku features extensively in chapter 2 of John Spencer's KAU. That led me to 'Harry Thuku - An Autobiography' done with the assistance of Kenneth King in 1970. Fascinated by his time and education at the Gospel Missionary Society in Kambui, with Wanyoike Kamawe, from 1907 - 1911. (1/2)

Now reading 'The Kenyan African Union' by John Spencer

Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 17 Feb for a book launch & discussion of: 'Peasants to Paupers: Land, Class and Kinship in Central Kenya' with author Peter Lockwood (Göttingen) & David Anderson (Warwick) *Hybrid event* Full details & webinar registration: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/b8f...