25 stories spanning millions of years of Kenyan history.
Exactly one year after independence, Kenya took the next step. The country was declared a Republic, severing the final...
When Jomo Kenyatta stood at independence and said Harambee, pull together, he was invoking a tradition that already...
Oginga Odinga had been one of the architects of Kenyan independence. He was Kenyatta's Vice President. But by 1966, the...
In 1966, the Central Bank of Kenya was established, giving the country its own monetary authority for the first time....
At the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Kipchoge Keino was suffering from a gallbladder infection so severe that he collapsed...
Tom Mboya was 38 years old, charismatic, brilliant, internationally connected and widely seen as a future president of...
The Nairobi Stock Exchange, now the Nairobi Securities Exchange, was founded in 1954 during the colonial era but came...
In 1974, Kenya made Kiswahili a co-official language alongside English. It was more than a policy change. It was a...
Josiah Mwangi Kariuki was a Member of Parliament who had survived the Mau Mau detention camps and emerged with a...
Ngugi wa Thiong'o was already one of Africa's most celebrated writers when he made the decision that would land him in...
For decades, the Voice of Kenya radio service was how most Kenyans experienced national life. Before television was...
Jomo Kenyatta, the father of the nation, died on 22 August 1978 after fifteen years as Kenya's first and only...
When Daniel arap Moi succeeded Kenyatta in 1978, he adopted a political philosophy he called Nyayo, meaning footsteps...
In the years after independence, a new sound emerged from western Kenya and spread across the country. Benga music,...
In June 1982, the Kenyan parliament passed a constitutional amendment, Section 2A, declaring KANU the only legal...
When Ngugi wa Thiong'o was detained without trial in Kamiti Maximum Security Prison in 1977-78, he had no paper. He...
At dawn on 1 August 1982, junior officers of the Kenya Air Force seized the radio station in Nairobi and announced that...
In 1984, one of the worst droughts in living memory struck northern Kenya. The semi-arid regions of Turkana, Marsabit...
In 1984, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey and his team working at Nariokotome near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya...
In 1985, Nairobi hosted the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for...
Wangari Maathai had been planting trees since 1977. By the mid-1980s, the Green Belt Movement she founded had planted...
In 1988, Kenya held elections under a system so designed for manipulation that it became a global byword for electoral...
When John Ngugi won the 5,000 metres at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, he was completing a tradition that Kenya had been...
When the government of Daniel arap Moi announced plans to build a 60-storey skyscraper in Uhuru Park, Nairobi's most...
For years, domestic activists and international donors had been demanding the return of multiparty democracy to Kenya....