by admin | May 30, 2026 | Christine Nicholls
Firmly established in Zanzibar, the firm Smith Mackenzie was in an excellent position to take advantage of the opportunities for trade on the mainland once the Imperial British East Africa Company penetrated the interior of the lands that were to become Kenya and...
by admin | Apr 1, 2026 | Christine Nicholls
In the 1870s The Sultan of Zanzibar, Seyyid Bhargash, was well disposed towards Westerners, particularly if their activities boosted the island’s commerce. The British India Steam Navigation Company (BISN) started a regular service of steamers between Bombay and Aden...
by admin | Feb 4, 2026 | Christine Nicholls
As part of their attempts to counter the Slave Trade, the British sent Atkins Hamerton to Zanzibar in 1842 to discover the extent of the trade in human beings. He was lent a house by Seyyid Said, the Sultan of Zanzibar, on the foreshore near the Sultan’s palace. It...
by admin | Dec 22, 2025 | Christine Nicholls
In the last Old Africa, Karen Rothmyer talked of the 1923 rebellion in ‘When Kenya’s White Settlers Threatened UDI’, so I thought I would provide further details about it. Winston Churchill had proposed a common electoral role, one Indian member on the Executive...
by admin | Nov 30, 2022 | Christine Nicholls
Logan Hook, tall and handsome, a submarine commander in the First World War, went to Kenya in 1921. He took his family to Nanyuki where for 15 years they lived in a grass house which cost them £15.00 to build. As they knew nothing about farming, they established the...
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