Kenya has quite an interesting past and what better way to show it off than with photographs. I have compiled some pictures from old Kenya that tell a bit of the country’s history. Hat tip to @Kresearcher and @Fkariuki.
1. A pump station in Kibwezi in 1960
2. The statue of Lord Delamere opposite Stanley Hotel on Delamere Avenue (now Kenyatta Avenue)
3. Near Fort Jesus, Mombasa in the 1900s
4. The Kenya International Conference Centre (KICC) under construction in 1969
5. The first DC office and Court House in Nairobi in 1900
6. Victoria Gardens (now Jeevanjee Gardens) in Nairobi in 1910
7. Government Road (now Moi Avenue) in Nairobi in the early 1900s
8. Victoria Street (now Tom Mboya Street) in Nairobi in the early 1900s
9. Vasco Da Gama Street in Mombasa in the 1900s
10. Indian Bazaar (now Biashara street) in Nairobi in the 1900s
11. Meru warriors circa 1910s
12. Confiscated cattle in Nyeri for residents failure to co-operate in operations against Mau Mau in 1952
13. Indian soldiers guarding the railway in Tsavo in 1915
14. Valley Road in the 1960s
15. Uhuru Park in 1976
16. Wilson Airport in 1958
17. The construction of the Nairobi Nyeri Road circa 1958
18. The first ever passenger train in Kenya leaves Kilindini Harbour for Voi on 2nd April 1898
19. The boys brigade at the Church of Scotland Mission school in Kikuyu in 1918
20. The first Printing Press in Kisumu that was owned by Vithalji Harji Jobanputra in 1928
21. The Kapenguria Six, Bildad Kaggia, Kung’u Karumba, Jomo Kenyatta, Fred Kubai, Paul Ngei, and Achieng’ Oneko, during their trial in Kapenguria town in 1952
22. Torr’s Hotel (now CFC-Stanbic Bank) in the 1920s
23. Namanga Town, on the border between Kenya and Tanzania
24. Lokichoggio Airport in Turkana in the 1970s
25. A Kenyan driving license in 1927
26. The Coronation Safari Rally on the Streets of Nairobi in 1956
27. Home guards arrest Mau Mau suspects on December 1st 1952
28. Ngong Hills as seen from Nairobi in the early 1900s
29. A British detention camp in Kenya in 1954
30. The Elephant Tusks on Moi Avenue in Mombasa circa 1967
31. The summit of Mount Kenya and Lewis Glacier in the early 1900s
32. Nanyuki town in 1943
33. Joginder Singh & Harbajan Sembi competing in East African Safari Rally in 1967
34. Kamba warriors 1910
35. Jomo Kenyatta, Tom Mboya and Mwai Kibaki celebrate after Kanu won the national elections in 1963
36. Kikuyu men with a missionary outside Watson-Scott Memorial church in Kikuyu circa 1915
37. Thorn Tree Restaurant outside New Stanley Hotel in 1969
38. A Luo man blows his horn circa 1908
39. A drinking session in Kavirondo Nyanza in the 1910s
40. Kisumu Market 1910
41. The Hilton Hotel in Nairobi under construction in 1968
42. A fuel station off the Nairobi-Mombasa highway in 1962
43. The Nairobi-Mombasa highway in 1960
44. War memorial along Delamere Avenue (now Kenyatta Avenue) in 1962
45. A Kavirondo warrior in early 1920s
46. Kikuyu men in the 1920s
47. Kikuyu women pounding grain near Nairobi in 1908
48. Four hawker fighter Kenya Airforce jets flying over Embakasi in 1964
49. A Kikuyu woman picking coffee berries in Kiambu in the late 1930s
50. Kipsigis warriors stage a chant of triumph around the carcass of a lion that had just been speared circa 1930
