Simeon Nyachae (right) welcomes President Uhuru Kenyatta to his alma mater, Kisii School in western Kenya, during the institution’s 80th anniversary in 2014.
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Nyachae always served at the intersection of politics and administration. Nevertheless, he was more of a firm manager than a politician.
The plane carrying UK’s Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh arrives at Eastleigh Airport in Nairobi in February 1952.
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Airport passenger terminals are often designed to flaunt a city and country. Embakasi's rudimentary terminal made Nairobi’s newest airport more colonial utility than colonial showpiece.
This sketch depicts the Waterloo Creek massacre (also known as the Slaughterhouse Creek massacre), part of the conflict between mounted police and Indigenous Australians in 1838.
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Police played a unique role in many settler colonies executing assimilationist policies designed to dismantle First Nations families.
The archives of academic institutions can tell previously untold stories of eugenics. Universities can begin to undo oppressive legacies by opening them to artists and communities.
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The Peterloo massacre was one of the worst atrocities committed on British soil, but across the empire there were many such acts.
A memorial by sculptor Margriet Windhausen depicts the life-size figures of Kate Sheppard and other leaders of the Aotearoa New Zealand suffrage movement.
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125 years ago today women in New Zealand were the first to win the right to vote. Why did this global first happen in a small and isolated corner of the South Pacific?