The Closer Union plan was meant to unite Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika colonies into a single British East African federation. In the spring of 1931, East African delegates were invited to London…
In late 1965, Luo Union Sports Club and Kisumu Hot Stars played at the Nairobi Stadium in a match which is still talked about today with avid enthusiasm. But the content of…
My grandpa is 80+ years old now. The other day I asked him how ‘Rodi Kopany’ came to be. He told me ‘rodi’ in dholuo means crossroad. Many paths crossed at Rodi.…
Kenya’s standard carries with it a rich history. It can be traced directly to the Kenya African Union, founded in 1942 under the name Kenya African Study Union, with Harry Thuku as…
Kenya’s political history cannot be complete and comprehensive without mentioning one of Luo’s political giants and earliest political organizers during British colonial rule. Born in 1894, Daniel Ojijo Oteko died in suspicious…
On December 1st 1955, civil rights activist, Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. She got arrested for violating Alabama’s racial segregation laws. However,…
The Dahomey Warriors known by Europeans as the Amazon warriors were the most famous African warrior women of the 1890s. The only female frontline troops in contemporary conflict history. An African band…
There were three types of people in the world from inception: the people of the Sun (Africoid type, the first to have emerged); the people of the sand (the western Asiatic type,…
Research has revealed that the richest person of all time lived in the 14th century in West Africa. He went by many names, including Kankan Musa Keita, Emir of Melle, Lord of…
In the 15th century CE, all African nobles in Europe were fighting for survival. The Papacy in Rome had declared a Papal bull (Romanus pontifex) in 1455, written by Pope Nicholas V,…