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Amos Kareithi

How 1,000 cats, dogs were left homeless in barracks

As the soldiers returned home, Kenyans and an estimated 1,000 cats, monkeys, dogs and other pets were poised to suffer immeasurable loss.

By Amos Kareithi 4 days ago

How 1,000 cats, dogs were left homeless in barracks

When Mboya sought to dismantle unpopular constitution

When Mboya sought to dismantle unpopular constitution

By Amos Kareithi 5 days ago

When James Kanyotu chased away a spy with bogus JM intelligence

When James Kanyotu chased away a spy with bogus JM intelligence

By Amos Kareithi 10 days ago

The day American boxer Mohamed Ali launched beer in Kenya

The day American boxer Mohamed Ali launched beer in Kenya

By Amos Kareithi 13 days ago

Day Jomo promised Sh60,000 the State could not raise

After the incident, it was decided that if a minister wanted something irregular or that which contradicted the rules, they had to commit themselves in writing.

By Amos Kareithi 24 days ago

Day Jomo promised Sh60,000 the State could not raise

The day Nelson Mandela walked into Saba Saba storm

Nelson Mandela's reception at the JKIA could not have prepared him for the flames of liberation literary burning in the streets of Nairobi and other major towns.

By Amos Kareithi 30 days ago

The day Nelson Mandela walked into Saba Saba storm

The day Wajackoyah was a sensation in British capital

Thirty years ago, Wajackoyah kicked off a storm in Kenya, South Africa and Britain so much so that at some point some media outlets feared touching his story.

By Amos Kareithi 1 month ago

The day Wajackoyah was a sensation in British capital

How Maasai lost their ancestral land to British in 1904

The cries of an estimated 70,000 herders from this pastoral community echo around East Africa as they are hounded out of their homes in Ngorongoro.

By Amos Kareithi 1 month ago

How Maasai lost their ancestral land to British in 1904

Gichuru, Okemo graft billions to aid Covid war

An estimated Sh450 million that was seized from Gichuru and Okemo is to be sent back to the country from Jersey after a 10-year legal tussle.

By Amos Kareithi 4 months ago

Gichuru, Okemo graft billions to aid Covid war

The day Raila experienced near-nuclear war standoff

Although the journey ended well for Mr Raila Odinga, the experience spoilt his Damascus moment.

By Amos Kareithi 5 months ago

The day Raila experienced near-nuclear war standoff

How Tusker beer was born

Kenyans have a wounded Tanzanian elephant to thank for giving the country the most famous drink, Tusker.

By Amos Kareithi 5 months ago

How Tusker beer was born

When European nations went to war in the name of God

The current invasion, according to Putin, is aimed to unite Russia and Ukraine.

By Amos Kareithi 5 months ago

When European nations went to war in the name of God

The exploits of John Boyes, the rogue colonial Kenya trader

For a bottle of iodoform, a disinfectant he used to clean wounds, he would pretend to be a doctor.

By Amos Kareithi 5 months ago

The exploits of John Boyes, the rogue colonial Kenya trader

Forget Valentines’ flowers, Col. Ewart Grogan walked from the Cape to Cairo

Former opposition leader Kenneth Matiba in 1956 also set out from Kahuhia to Thogoto in search of love but in the bargain ended up landing a job.

By Amos Kareithi 5 months ago

Forget Valentines’ flowers, Col. Ewart Grogan walked from the Cape to Cairo

72-year history of death and tears of Nairobi’s Woodley estate

How can so much death, pain, power and history be packed in a single city estate?

By Amos Kareithi 6 months ago

72-year history of death and tears of Nairobi’s Woodley estate

How Embu village Kianjokoma gained lasting infamy

Last year, the name became synonymous with police brutality after two brothers died after they were arrested for breaching Covid-19 regulations.

By Amos Kareithi 6 months ago

How Embu village Kianjokoma gained lasting infamy

When House Speaker turned a blind eye to no quorum

Wilberforce Kisiero was so engrossed in his notes and debate that he did not notice that he was literally talking to an empty chamber.

By Amos Kareithi 6 months ago

When House Speaker turned a blind eye to no quorum

How Ford Asili has dodged landmines for 30 years now

Forum for Restoration of Democracy (Ford) was born with the chief crusaders among them Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenneth Matiba and Njeru Kathangu.

By Amos Kareithi 6 months ago

How Ford Asili has dodged landmines for 30 years now

When paraffin was prescribed for deadly Spanish flu

Some of the remedies were not as bizarre as what Kenyan doctors prescribed during another global pandemic some 100 years ago.

By Amos Kareithi 6 months ago

When paraffin was prescribed for deadly Spanish flu

When Nairobi had only three judges

Colonel Russel of Nairobi Political Association tore into the government’s ineffectiveness in 1920 .

By Amos Kareithi 6 months ago

When Nairobi had only three judges

Margaret Kenyatta: In the footsteps of Nairobi's first female Mayor in 1938

Margaret Kenyatta, Jomo Kenyatta's eldest child, assumed office as mayor of Nairobi in 1970 and relinquished the seat in 1976.

By Amos Kareithi 6 months ago

Margaret Kenyatta: In the footsteps of Nairobi's first female Mayor in 1938

Prayers ‘saved’ Leakey, who believed there was no God

A select group of Christians and Muslims were mobilised from all corners of the country to go for vigil dubbed “Richard Leakey Prayers”.

By Amos Kareithi 6 months ago

Prayers ‘saved’ Leakey, who believed there was no God

When Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere said a big NO to Richard Leakey

or the plan to work, he lured His Royal Highness Prince Bernard off Netherlands to visit him at Koobi Fora camp.

By Amos Kareithi 6 months ago

When Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere said a big NO to Richard Leakey

Power of milk that dried up as KCC dreamed big

KCC had proposed to supply electricity for public, industrial and domestic lighting from its generating station, which was to be located in Nanyuki.

By Amos Kareithi 7 months ago

Power of milk that dried up as KCC dreamed big

Gold diggers' dalliance with death dates back to 1930s

Records from the Kenya Mines Department in 1937 showed the country exported 69,447 ounces of gold valued at £338,000.

By Amos Kareithi 7 months ago

Gold diggers' dalliance with death dates back to 1930s

Day Jomo promised Sh60,000 the State could not raise

After the incident, it was decided that if a minister wanted something irregular or that which contradicted the rules, they had to commit themselves in writing.

By Amos Kareithi 24 days ago

Day Jomo promised Sh60,000 the State could not raise

The day Nelson Mandela walked into Saba Saba storm

Nelson Mandela's reception at the JKIA could not have prepared him for the flames of liberation literary burning in the streets of Nairobi and other major towns.

By Amos Kareithi 30 days ago

The day Nelson Mandela walked into Saba Saba storm

The day Wajackoyah was a sensation in British capital

Thirty years ago, Wajackoyah kicked off a storm in Kenya, South Africa and Britain so much so that at some point some media outlets feared touching his story.

By Amos Kareithi 1 month ago

The day Wajackoyah was a sensation in British capital

How Maasai lost their ancestral land to British in 1904

The cries of an estimated 70,000 herders from this pastoral community echo around East Africa as they are hounded out of their homes in Ngorongoro.

By Amos Kareithi 1 month ago

How Maasai lost their ancestral land to British in 1904

Gichuru, Okemo graft billions to aid Covid war

An estimated Sh450 million that was seized from Gichuru and Okemo is to be sent back to the country from Jersey after a 10-year legal tussle.

By Amos Kareithi 4 months ago

Gichuru, Okemo graft billions to aid Covid war

The day Raila experienced near-nuclear war standoff

Although the journey ended well for Mr Raila Odinga, the experience spoilt his Damascus moment.

By Amos Kareithi 5 months ago

The day Raila experienced near-nuclear war standoff

How Tusker beer was born

Kenyans have a wounded Tanzanian elephant to thank for giving the country the most famous drink, Tusker.

By Amos Kareithi 5 months ago

How Tusker beer was born

When European nations went to war in the name of God

The current invasion, according to Putin, is aimed to unite Russia and Ukraine.

By Amos Kareithi 5 months ago

When European nations went to war in the name of God

The exploits of John Boyes, the rogue colonial Kenya trader

For a bottle of iodoform, a disinfectant he used to clean wounds, he would pretend to be a doctor.

By Amos Kareithi 5 months ago

The exploits of John Boyes, the rogue colonial Kenya trader

Forget Valentines’ flowers, Col. Ewart Grogan walked from the Cape to Cairo

Former opposition leader Kenneth Matiba in 1956 also set out from Kahuhia to Thogoto in search of love but in the bargain ended up landing a job.

By Amos Kareithi 5 months ago

Forget Valentines’ flowers, Col. Ewart Grogan walked from the Cape to Cairo

72-year history of death and tears of Nairobi’s Woodley estate

How can so much death, pain, power and history be packed in a single city estate?

By Amos Kareithi 6 months ago

72-year history of death and tears of Nairobi’s Woodley estate

How Embu village Kianjokoma gained lasting infamy

Last year, the name became synonymous with police brutality after two brothers died after they were arrested for breaching Covid-19 regulations.

By Amos Kareithi 6 months ago

How Embu village Kianjokoma gained lasting infamy

When House Speaker turned a blind eye to no quorum

Wilberforce Kisiero was so engrossed in his notes and debate that he did not notice that he was literally talking to an empty chamber.

By Amos Kareithi 6 months ago

When House Speaker turned a blind eye to no quorum

How Ford Asili has dodged landmines for 30 years now

Forum for Restoration of Democracy (Ford) was born with the chief crusaders among them Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenneth Matiba and Njeru Kathangu.

By Amos Kareithi 6 months ago

How Ford Asili has dodged landmines for 30 years now

When paraffin was prescribed for deadly Spanish flu

Some of the remedies were not as bizarre as what Kenyan doctors prescribed during another global pandemic some 100 years ago.

By Amos Kareithi 6 months ago

When paraffin was prescribed for deadly Spanish flu

When Nairobi had only three judges

Colonel Russel of Nairobi Political Association tore into the government’s ineffectiveness in 1920 .

By Amos Kareithi 6 months ago

When Nairobi had only three judges

Margaret Kenyatta: In the footsteps of Nairobi's first female Mayor in 1938

Margaret Kenyatta, Jomo Kenyatta's eldest child, assumed office as mayor of Nairobi in 1970 and relinquished the seat in 1976.

By Amos Kareithi 6 months ago

Margaret Kenyatta: In the footsteps of Nairobi's first female Mayor in 1938

Prayers ‘saved’ Leakey, who believed there was no God

A select group of Christians and Muslims were mobilised from all corners of the country to go for vigil dubbed “Richard Leakey Prayers”.

By Amos Kareithi 6 months ago

Prayers ‘saved’ Leakey, who believed there was no God

When Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere said a big NO to Richard Leakey

or the plan to work, he lured His Royal Highness Prince Bernard off Netherlands to visit him at Koobi Fora camp.

By Amos Kareithi 6 months ago

When Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere said a big NO to Richard Leakey

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