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Mombasa Eagles FC’s 2021 Team Roster. In conversation with Kevin Kalama, Chairman – Mombasa Eagles Football Club, a team plying their trade at Serani Sports Ground. Pwani Tribune (PT): Congratulations on the recent launch of your team’s new season strip, great progress. Take us back to where it all started, […]
Tom Smith, prominent Bombay African in Frere Town. Image from ‘Children of Ham; Freed Slaves & Fugitive Slaves on the Kenyan Coast, 1873-1907’ by Fred Morton. Researching on the Indian Ocean Slave Trade makes for gruesome reading. Recently, however, I arrived at a chapter that is a respite from the […]
The Askari Monument in Jomo Kenyatta Avenue, Mombasa. Picture from @TourismMombasa. There are other monuments in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. In documenting the unsung African efforts in the East African Campaign of World War 1, of which Taveta saw a considerable amount of action, we must begin with the […]
A running series featuring those that call Mombasa County home. Featured in this edition is Michael Kiwo, founder and proprietor of Pollucare Cleaners, a waste management company based in Ganjoni, Mombasa County. The company has its operations across Mombasa island, and the nearby areas of Nyali, Bombolulu and Bamburi. My […]
Mariakani-Bamba Road as pictured by the President’s Delivery Unit (PDU). In 2017 during his State of the Nation address in Parliament, President Uhuru Kenyatta provided the nation with a lighthearted moment, singing ‘Safari ya Bamba ni Machero’. The internet immediately went abuzz. For many Kenyans it was a throwback to […]
A stalled Mghenyi Odu Safaris Tour bus, a landmark in Iriwa shopping center, Mbale. I have spent the past two weeks in Moka village, Mbale ward. A hidden gem within Wundanyi constituency, Taita Taveta County. A senior citizen and resident of the area says Mbale reminds her of a book […]
This past Saturday I had the privilege and pleasure of attending the premiere of a local film production, The Letter. The film joins an increasing line of impressive work by local filmmakers, only this time with a welcome uniqueness. The film is shot entirely in Kilifi and Mombasa and offers […]
Wall of Prominent Coast Personalities: Dr. Chibule wa Tsuma. Kilifi South MP (1979-1988), surgeon (one of the first crop of Kenyan doctors to study surgery) and for the record books…Coast region’s first Presidential candidate (1992) in independent Kenya. Born in 1943 in Buni, Rabai, Chibule wa Tsuma went on to […]
According to folklore, a giant among men is believed to have existed around the 9th century. His name was Fumo Liyongo and he is a warrior claimed by both Pate island Swahilis on the Lamu archipelago and the Pokomo on the Tana Delta as their own. There is a place […]
A running series featuring those that call Kilifi County home, in their own words. Anthony Baya, Environmental Activist from Jilore Sub-County and Founder-Tonny’s Campaign Against Climate Change. “As Kenyans, we are lucky to have the best example in environmental conservation and activism, Nobel Laureate, Mama Wangari Mathai. She, together with […]
