H i s t o r yKE
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About Kenya’s History. HistoryKE on FB, https://t.co/eJx3qqX46b on IG. Images may be subject to copyright.
Marereni, Kilifi, Kenya
Joined October 2015
@shobanes ENDEVR pale YouTube have done a very good documentary on how the gates foundat is bad for Africa https://t.co/iLL91fic4m
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3/ Paul Ngei, then Minister of Cooperatives on 'forgetting' past grievances and moving forward to develop the country. 📹ThamesTv
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The government does not care about you. My head is reading this as a sterility programme. Nimewaka kama dragon. Protect the women.
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IEBC designed a phased approach for the current voter registration with a 10% target for phase 1 meaning very little investment in the process but it’s people being made to look bad @HistoryKE
This CVR exercise will take place in all 290 constituencies, supported by 57 Huduma Centres for accessibility. Transfers and corrections will continue to be handled in constituency offices. The Commission projects a register of 28.5 million voters in 2027. To reach this, we have
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@HistoryKE Quick question, or random thought. Is registration done at the polling stations or constituencies? And even if we say Huduma centers are there any open today? Maybe it’s the how’s it’s being done and not people not registering. Is it by design?
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Warriors from the Abaluhya community (pictured) brandished shields made from hippopotamus hide, as seen in these pictures. The curved Maasai shield, on the other hand, was made from buffalo hide.
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Surreal to be learning more about her on stage courtesy of @npa_studio well played by Valentine Kamau.
A 1951 photo of Mr. & Mrs. Bildad Kaggia with son, Mwaganu; his wife in 1990, and he with Koigi in the 1990s.
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The former U.S. embassy building at the corner of Nairobi’s Moi and Haile Selassie Avenues upon its completion in December 1980. Inset is Union Towers building, whose 4th - 12th floors at that time were rented out to USAID #vintagenairobi.
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1/2: A 1937 aerial photo of Chiromo area. See present-day Chiromo Road and Riverside Drive junction? The vast swathe in the foreground of this photo should today be occupied by Kempinski Hotel, Galileo’s, among others. Salisbury Hotel can also be seen. #VintageNairobi
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1926: First ordination of Africans to PCEA church at Thogoto. L-R - Rev Matenjura, Rev Musa Gitau & Rev B. Githieya.
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Kenyan scientist and researcher Prof. Arthur Obel, renowned for coming up with Pearl Omega, a drug he claimed was a cure for HIV/AIDS, has died in a city hospital after a long illness.
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Close!
Just phenomenal warding off stiff competition yet leading from gun to tape in the men’s 800m final. Take a bow, Omwami Emmanuel Wanyonyi.
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Emmanuel Wanyonyi is a special athlete. He always looks like the race is getting away from him, and he always ends up winning.
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Just phenomenal warding off stiff competition yet leading from gun to tape in the men’s 800m final. Take a bow, Omwami Emmanuel Wanyonyi.
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However, contrary to what’s portrayed in the article, the Israeli commandos flew straight from Israel, not from Nairobi. They only made a brief refuelling stopover in Nairobi after the raid. cc @NationAfrica.
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'We have been visited by a mighty ruler who has brought fire & destruction amongst us...neither the old nor the young...however small, was spared to live'. Sultan of Mombasa's 1505 letter to Sultan of Malindi after Dom Francisco de Almeida's attack killed 1,513 Mombasa residents.
1505: Backed by 1,000+ hired Mijikenda archers from the mainland, Mombasa under its Sultan & people refuses to bow to Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese Viceroy of the Indies. The city proclaims “the warriors of Mombasa are not the hens of Kilwa” but ultimately falls. A thread…
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