... in his book ‘The History of the Alliance High School’ (page 2). Smith was the Deputy Headmaster at the school from 1927 - 1965. (2/2)

In his retirement he wrote his biography in Kiswahili - 'Maisha ya Sameni Ole Kivasis yaani Justin Lemenye' (1953). There is an English version titled 'The life of Justin: an African autobiography', translated and annotated by Henry A Fosbrooke (1954) (5/5)

Justin accepted a job offer to teach at the school for Africans at the AIM Kijabe mission station. He taught there for two years. He met Thedore Roosevelt when he visited Kijabe in 1909. Justin then returned to his homeland - the land of the Kwavi. He worked as an administrator until 1947. (4/5)

Justin worked for Hollis as a research assistant in Nairobi, on the book 'The Masai: Their Language and Folklore '(1905). Justin was then hired as an interpreter for Arthur Collyer, the District Commissioner for the Masai Reserve in Rumuruti. After 3 years Justin resigned. (3/5)

In 1895 he was one of the six pupil-teachers at the Mahoo school. He joined the CMS Divinity School in Frere Town, near Mombasa, for a two-year course. He then worked as a teacher at Mahoo for about four years. In 1901 he met AC Hollis, a senior colonial government administrator in Mombasa. (2/5)

Dreadful stuff but worth understanding as it contains the DNA of the administration of modern day Kenya.

Hey Anand. Neither had I before reading the article. The context is the late 1954 stage of the Mau Mau rebellion. Closer supervision of Central Kenya by the colonial government to consolidate the gains of the brutal suppression of Mau Mau and prevent a repeat in the future.

If so I wonder why Strayer does not identify one of the people he writes a lot about in chapter 2, titled 'Bombay Africans and Freed Slaves; A Missionary Prelude to Colonial Rule 1875 - 1900.' [3/3]

This photo on page 50 of 'My Third Campaign in East Africa 1890' by William Salter Price (1898), has the caption Rev. W.H. Jones and Family. Thi photo was most likely made by Price in about 1889 and it looks like the same man seated far right in the photo in Strayer's book. [2/3]

Price wanted to establish a new CMS station near the first inland station of the Imperial British East Africa Co. There he saw for the first time the IBEA Co. flag "on a blue and white ground, a crown, a Union Jack and the rising sun, with the motto "Light and Liberty". [2/2]