John Kamau’s 'Historia Yetu" newsletter
John KamauI am an award-winning African investigative journalist and historian. In 2016, I was voted Kenya's journalist of the Year. If you love public history and investigative journalism subscribe here and there: https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryWorksTV
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Kenya’s Railway Museum: A Gallery of Colonisation and silence
The first thing that catches your eye at Nairobi’s Railway Museum is not a document, not a photograph, not a clock—it is the railway engines outside, heavy with iron and legend. They stand like monuments. For many visitors, these locomotive...
Bottled Comfort: Milk, Labour, and Nairobi’s Early City Life
Nairobi didn’t make itself. It was made in the seam between two worlds—settler ambition and African work—and few things stitched that seam more tightly than milk.
Call it the milk synergy: not a feel-good partnership, but a daily interdepe...
Jomo Kenyatta’s Marriage Certificate and the Politics of Paper
When Jomo Kenyatta married Edna Clarke in May 1942, the story recorded on paper was not quite the truth. The marriage certificate described him as a bachelor. In reality, he had already married Wahu in Kenya—first in a customary ceremony in...
Tom Mboya: Remembering the man they shot on Government Road
On a day like today, July 11, Tom Mboya was laid to rest on Rusinga Island—an isolated, rural outpost far removed from the vibrant, cosmopolitan world he inhabited in life. Mboya was not just a national figure; he was an international state...
Alaska town that elected a cat as its mayor: Lessons for Kenya
Once upon a time in Alaska, a town got so tired of lying, thieving politicians that they did the unthinkable—they elected a cat. Yes, a real cat as the Mayor of Talkeetna, a town with a population of about 1000 people.
Now, to some Kenyans...
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