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1/7 #HistoryKeThread: Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya (August 15, 1930 - July 5, 1969) and Luis de Assis Correia, co-founders of Africa-America Foundation, Kenya, flanked by some of the 81 students en route to the USA on the first charter flight airlift from...
2/7 ...Embakasi Airport,...
3/7 ...Nairobi to Idlewild Airport, New York.
4/7 JFK International Airport was at the time known as Idlewild Airport.
5/7 One of the beneficiaries of the airlift was a then 23 years old Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (1936-24 November 1982), who has been identified as the bespectacled and smiling man standing in front, fourth from right.
6/7 The second lady to Mboya’s left is none other than the late Nobel laureate Prof. Wangari Maathai.
7/7 Tom Mboya was killed yesterday, 49 years ago.
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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.
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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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#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.
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