Kenya Police Through the Decades: A Photo Archive (1920–1980)
The history of the Kenya Police is a story of an institution created for one purpose and forced to serve another. Formed in the early … Read more
Twelve Years of Nyayo: Nairobi from 1978–1990 in Photographs
A Visual History of Power, Propaganda, Protest, and Everyday Survival 1978 – The End of One Era, the Beginning of Another Nairobi entered 1978 in … Read more
Kenya’s Independence Day in Photos, 1963
A Historical Exhibition 1. Ruring’u Stadium, Nyeri – Early 1963 Supporters of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) gather after a symbolic gesture of surrender … Read more
Story of Kenya’s matatus through rare photos
Long before Nairobi became a city of traffic jams and ride-hailing apps, its roads told a different story. The matatu — a Swahili slang for … Read more
Nairobi during the 1910s
Nairobi in the 1910s was a small but rapidly growing colonial town, just a little over a decade old since being established as a railway … Read more
People and Places: Nyeri 100 Years Ago in Pictures
Nyeri has long been a town of historical significance. Over a century ago, it stood as a crucial colonial administrative center, a hub of commerce, … Read more