
Paul Olind
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In 1973, Ugandan President Idi Amin made a two-day visit to Mombasa to among other issues discuss plans to modernise the East African Federation. At that point, he hadn’t yet made any territorial claims on Kenya or Tanzania and was still relatively popular in Kenya 📹AP Archive
Paul Olind80,204 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce

1/ In 1977, a British media crew visited Kenya to document the European community that chose to stay after independence. The clips I’ll share below explore themes of race relations, land ownership, and the role of expatriates in post-independence Kenya. 📹ThamesTv
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Tanzanian troops storming Jinja giving off Soviet vibes. By this time, Kampala had already fallen, but there remained a fear that the then named Owen Falls Dam, which supplied electricity to most of the country would be sabotaged. It was captured intact. 📹AP Archive
Paul Olind63,979 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce

Interetsing seeing the takes by folks on this. NPR did a piece on his situation. 📹npr
Paul Olind47,015 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce

The unit arguably has the most storied history within KDF's infantry battalions as it's a direct descendant of the 11th KAR that fought in WW2 under the 25th EA Brigade in Burma (now Myanmar). They've served well post-independence from the Shifta War to Operation Linda Nchi
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On this day in 1997, the KANU government unleashed police and hired goons on protesters and activists in Nairobi. A few kilometres away at Uhuru Park, Moi was presiding over Moi Day celebrations with pomp, parades and colour. Five years later he was gone... 📹AP Archive
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An unverified video circulating online allegedly shows Kenyans fighting for Russia in Ukraine. However, the men in the clip are unmistakably Kenyan, with some heard saying, “Who’s complaining here?” “Aren’t we doing a good job?” and “Those stories out there are just tales.”
Paul Olind14,373 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce

There's a gem of a YouTube channel that has lots of historical clips on the Kenyan military like this clip from 1972, a lot of these men likely fought in the Shifta War. You see a lot of vintage equipment here like the Saladin armoured car, Caribou plane etc 📹The Archives
Paul Olind21,686 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
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