Ambitious scheme that gave rise to slums, millions of squatter families

President Jomo Kenyatta accompanied by members of his Cabinet tour the Mwea Tebere irrigation settlement scheme on January 27, 1965. [File, Standard]

The white driver watched in disbelief as the gaunt black woman painfully took the details of his car at the gate.

He could not understand why the woman, who in his estimation should have been tiling part of the 200-acre estate, was delaying his departure.