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1/3 #HistoryKeThread Lionel Douglas Galton-Fenzi was the first man in January 1926 to drive from Mombasa to Nairobi, co-driven by Capt. Gethin. The Galton-Fenzi memorial monument next to GPO is in his honour.
2/3 The memorial is the beacon from which road distances from the city of Nairobi are measured.
3/3 Besides helping map out a number of roads in Nairobi, Galton-Fenzi also helped found the Kenya branch of the Royal East Africa Automobile Association in 1919 (now the Automobile Association of Kenya).
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#HistoryKeThread In Mzee Kenyatta’s sunset days, there was a daring cabal of powerful individuals who were determined to stop his Vice President Moi from taking over the reins of leadership.
Indeed, these vey leaders in September of 1976 played host to a large anti-Moi political rally in Nakuru. During the rally, speaker after speaker called for the Constitution to be changed.
They wanted provisions that made it possible for the Vice President to automatically take over the presidency repealed.

Of course, the focus was on Moi. The Change-The-Constitution movement was scheming to scuttle Moi’s automatic succession.
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#HistoryKeThread: In 1923, Capt. R.L. Stanley wrote the following about the Kavirondo (Luo):
“The Wa-Kavirondo with its many branches is a populous tribe and inhabited a large territory roughly to the north and south of the Kavirondo Gulf inthe Victoria Nyanza, the area to the north extending to the slopes of Mount Elgon and to the south to what was the German border.
The tribe is remarkable for the fact that men and women do not wear clothing; adopting the nude totally, except in centres like Kisumu where the merest apology for dress is adopted in the form of a loincloth made from americani (cotton cloth).
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#HistoryKeThread After Britain and Oman had signed the Moresby Treaty in 1822, two British ships under the command of Captain William Fitzwilliam Wentworth Owen were dispatched to the Indian Ocean to survey the East African coast and Arabia.
The captain's mandate was to monitor and stamp out any slave trade activity in the region. Owen was a man so fervently committed to the cause of ridding the world of slavery that he sailed to Muscat on his ship, HMS Leven, to harangue Seyyid Said about the horrors of slave trade.
The other ship under his command, HMS Barracouda, paid a visit to Mombasa to stock up on supplies. The Barracouda sailed into Mombasa harbour on December 4th 1823.
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"First Man" is a weird film. Much of it is pleasing and somewhat surprising (the claustrophobic space-entry sequence) and some of it not so much: for example, the glaring whiteness not exactly helped by a scene that appears to be glib about civil rights protestors.
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