The aftermath of the bomb that hit Nairobi on the morning of August 7th 1998, the US Embassy in Nairobi came under bomb attack from Al Qaeda, about 218 people died and 5,000+ were left injured. The attack was one of the biggest to ever hit Kenya. 🎥 Courtesy The Associated Press

This song was a hit back in the early 2000. The late E-sir and nameless shook the music industry with this song. For the love of Kenyan music. Namelessmusic™

After KPU was banned, and Oginga Odinga was detained in 1969, the newly elected MPs pledged loyalty to Jomo Kenyatta. Everyone thought Odinga was finished....History always repeats itself. Via John Kamau, MBS

The aftermath of the Lari Massacre on 26th March 1953. Mau Mau fighters had descended on the families of local chiefs, ex-chiefs, headmen, councillors & prominent Home Guard, burning them alive. The colonial govt retaliated by killing hundreds of Mau Mau fighters & sympathizers.

49 yrs ago. Petrol: 1.95ksh 53 Ltrs: 101.80ksh 49 years later. Petrol: 195.6ksh 53 ltrs: 10,366.8ksh Take me back.

Field Marshal Musa Mwariama,he survived the Mau Mau war & never got arrested by the colonialists. Musa was born in 1928 & died in 1989 when he sucked poisonous snake venom from his friend's leg. He died but his friend survived. On his arrest,he was jailed once after independence.

A photo of St Stephen's Jogoo Rd taken on September 9th 1954. At one point it had the largest congregation in Africa.

Meet Robert Marshall,Kenya's official hangman in 1940s & 1950s. He was based at Kamiti where he executed those convicted of murder/rape.He was given the tender after providing the lowest quote:£5 for hanging a white person,£1 for an African & promised to hang Indians for free.

August 1st 1982: Moi after being brought to town in an armoured convoy from Kabarak led by Maj Gen Musomba to announce to Kenyans that he was back as C-I-C. Kenyans who watched him on TV that day remembers the crushed look on his face. Moi was not to be the same man again.

Meet Patrick Shaw, the police reservist who was most feared by the criminals in Nairobi. He rarely slept due to glandular disorder, so he used his nights to patrol the streets of Nairobi. He killed tens of armed robbers & made other flee from the city. Shaw died on 14th Feb 1988.

At the end of his tenure in 2002, President Daniel arap Moi says an emotional goodbye to some of his staff before boarding a military chopper to carry him from State House to Kabarak as he started his retirement after 24 years of service. Dr Sally Kosgei was very emotional.

Rosemary Alaki(left), Mboya's daughter from his first marriage. She was born in 1953 when Mboya was just 23 years old. Look at that resemblance.

1989: At the height of the single party rule in Kenya, Dr. Gikonyo Kiano was the landslide winner of the parliamentary seat. His sole opponent, Gidraph Mweru, was however declared winner and subsequently sworn in as MP. Ndindi Nyoro should see how far his area has come from.

Late 1973: Wananchi wait for fuel at a fuel station in Eldoret, Kenya. Kenya and other countries had suffered major shortages after Arab countries boycotted oil production, protesting America’s support for Israel during the Yom Kippur Arab-Israeli war of 1973.

Did you know that prior to their settlement in Palestine, the Israelites were to be resettled in the Kenyan Rift valley province? The idea received opposition from the British white settlers who did not want to share the land with the Jews. Just what if this happened? 🤔🤔