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#HistoryKeTrivia #HistoryKeThread Many of you will know that the East African Standard is Kenya’s oldest newspaper, having been founded in 1902.
In those early 20th century years, there were also less known but fairly well acclaimed weeklies. We can tell you of two, both of which were interestingly founded not by Britons but Americans.
Globetrotter was one of them. Its founder and editor was one David Garrick Longworth.
1/7 #HistoryKeTrivia In the late 1940s, Kenya Africa Union (KAU) officials embarked on a countrywide tour to recruit various African leaders to its cause.
2/7 In Nyanza, they found a young man, Oginga Odinga, who was in the process of launching a vast cooperative society. Oginga was its Managing Director. 
3/7 The society was known as the Luo Thrift Corporation, although others called it the Luo Thift Trading Union.
