A British Family in Kenya (early 1950s)

A British family visit friends or relatives in Kenya to attend a wedding. With their cine camera they record aspects of the country which provide a fascinating insight into colonial life, and scenes of wildlife, Nairobi and Nakuru.

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  • @StrawbaleHouse
    @StrawbaleHouse9 ай бұрын

    I was born in Nairobi in 1944 and lived in Kenya until I got married in 1964 and left for University in Scotland. I then migrated to Australia and have been home to Kenya many times since. I always remembered Mzee Kenyatta's speech when Kenya achieved self government in 1963 and then full independence in December 1963. Mzee said that the settlers of which I was a member of a settler family would be welcome to stay and help build Kenya together. Mzee then went about keeping the colonial way of doing business with a bureaucracy that is today still the same. Mzee went to London University and also was educated in Moscow. I never felt superior in any way to my fellow Kenyans nor did I take sides with any religions. The past is just that the past and I have good friends still from those days so long ago. Kenya is growing so fast in the cities the population has grown from 7 million in the 60s to 50+ million today. I will always call Kenya home.

  • @africatodayke

    @africatodayke

    7 ай бұрын

    the colonial idea which included the settlers was a terrible scourge to the natives. their puppet kenyatta and his family was a much greater pain that entrenched modern neocolonialism to this day. the struggle for true independence goes on.

  • @felixmakinda7689

    @felixmakinda7689

    5 ай бұрын

    Impressive account. I grew up in Kericho tea plantations. As a student of history, I always wanted to learn more about how life was like back then. Sad that a number of the British homes we grew around have been demolished possibly due to being considered insecure. Still, impressive castles remain telling a story of British architectural ingenuity and workmanship.

  • @ezekiakamwerru1490

    @ezekiakamwerru1490

    3 ай бұрын

    Freedom is power which is not given but taken. ​@@africatodayke

  • @Jospato862

    @Jospato862

    2 ай бұрын

    Greetings to you can you help me come to Europe or Australia?

  • @Deggoo

    @Deggoo

    2 ай бұрын

    Descendant of your forefathers who went around the world to kill and steal from native people. Your days are numbered on this planet.

  • @tangatoto362
    @tangatoto3624 жыл бұрын

    Thanks you for this posting and especially your considered commentary. Having been born there in the early 50’s and watched countless home movies of all the same subject matter, it has been an interesting journey. When you are a kid, you never understand things like race, class etc and it’s only in my later years that I realised what a privileged early life I enjoyed in that beautiful country .

  • @erickmodesto3751

    @erickmodesto3751

    Жыл бұрын

    When did you leave Kenya? Do yoou still visit?

  • @gracemimo
    @gracemimo7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this video ...lm obsessed with kenya's colonial history

  • @TrancEndingMedia

    @TrancEndingMedia

    7 жыл бұрын

    mims you and me both!! fckin theives!!

  • @fullthrottlealways

    @fullthrottlealways

    6 жыл бұрын

    mims I am as well. It seems rather nostalgic to me. I must say it seems so idyllic and beautiful.

  • @heyguesswhat2414

    @heyguesswhat2414

    6 жыл бұрын

    Hey mims- any recommended reading? I’m reading ‘Leopard at the door’ by Jennifer mcveigh

  • @steveswakei9600

    @steveswakei9600

    5 жыл бұрын

    +burnman which cancer?

  • @gracemimo

    @gracemimo

    5 жыл бұрын

    lets start a history club@@TrancEndingMedia

  • @steveswakei9600
    @steveswakei96005 жыл бұрын

    wouh. was born about 25 years later. i love history. thank you. thank God for youtube

  • @guy9302
    @guy93022 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic! Great that they took this video!

  • @katyu16
    @katyu164 жыл бұрын

    Beautifully narrated!

  • @MrBob3543
    @MrBob35437 жыл бұрын

    thanks a lot for posting such memories....can you upload more?

  • @geffeniz
    @geffeniz5 жыл бұрын

    Those hills in Nakuru still look the same today ...this is wonderful

  • @Johnny102

    @Johnny102

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bro hills and mountains don't change they will stay forever those are naturalade by God ,the ones that are artificial are the ones that will not last forever

  • @NgugiKamau-rr3zp

    @NgugiKamau-rr3zp

    8 ай бұрын

    Hahaha 🤣🤣!they migrate not!made my day

  • @Nakestra
    @Nakestra4 жыл бұрын

    This is amazing seeing our grand parents on screen

  • @makanaki513

    @makanaki513

    4 жыл бұрын

    You have no shame, land grabber

  • @rkibaiya
    @rkibaiya6 жыл бұрын

    Funny the narator saying the majority of the people seems to be Africans while it's 60,000 British people came to Kenya. This is a black country.....very ironical say that

  • @Signals927

    @Signals927

    6 жыл бұрын

    I'm white and I agree pretty stupid statement if that's what he meant?

  • @ropaul8006

    @ropaul8006

    2 жыл бұрын

    True. Time to ship Africans out of Europe

  • @ronaldkatananyali8409

    @ronaldkatananyali8409

    2 жыл бұрын

    Kenya is still ruled and controlled via proxy

  • @petem.4787
    @petem.4787 Жыл бұрын

    Has to say I liked it. I was not born then but to see how life was in colonial kenya,is amazing. I wish I could see a kenyan recording of the same with their perspective.....(a tall order considering how much a video camera cost those days relative to African incomes).

  • @stephenpapworth4105

    @stephenpapworth4105

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes,I agree with all you wrote.

  • @consigliere254

    @consigliere254

    Жыл бұрын

    You wouldn't be free to move around. You'd be in a concentration camp if they found you site seeing the highlands. Or worse.

  • @florencekimotho887

    @florencekimotho887

    Ай бұрын

    You seem 2 be but out of touch with the reality back then. Nothing was 'amazing' about a trail of innocent blood of natives by your exalted race of peoples of an organized crime syndicate!

  • @geraldswain3259
    @geraldswain32597 жыл бұрын

    To be quite honest,the outskirts of the towns looked better then than now !.

  • @theturkanabus3610

    @theturkanabus3610

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Neon Dawn they do. Tuongee tu ukweli.

  • @MartinIDavies

    @MartinIDavies

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Neon Dawn "empire is dead" which Empire? if you are referring the British Empire I think every person on planet has know this since it was dismantled 50 years ago.. so maybe you should stop the cultural appropriation and stop conversing in the English language of the dead Empire and start learning Chinese the new owners and imperial masters of Sub-Saharan states

  • @MartinIDavies

    @MartinIDavies

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Neon Dawn Ah.. a Brit hater eh.. you seem to be the one doing the ranting most concerned about the demise of the British Empire and denial that China is the new Imperial overlord of post-colonial 'independent African sub-Saharan states.. geesh it only took a mere 50 years of 'Independence' for the inept murderous kleptocratic regimes to rob their countries blind and into abject poverty and invite their new Imperial masters in..at least with the British Africans had the excuse that the British were to strong while this time around they just sold the lot willingly.. what a useless load of morons.. tell you what do us all a favour and start conversing in language.other than English a people and a culture you dislike so much..

  • @lugwetunje3896

    @lugwetunje3896

    2 жыл бұрын

    So what

  • @abocas
    @abocas2 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful footage and narration .....

  • @CrazyLeiFeng
    @CrazyLeiFeng7 жыл бұрын

    3:58 on a tractor wearing a suit and a tie - priceless....

  • @florencekimotho887

    @florencekimotho887

    Ай бұрын

    Their pride arrogance was through the roof and go they must!

  • @statezeroentertainment4676
    @statezeroentertainment46765 жыл бұрын

    On the hills....thats GilGil town old highway Nakuru Nairobi road.

  • @TrancEndingMedia
    @TrancEndingMedia7 жыл бұрын

    awesome channel!!

  • @davidkorir6297
    @davidkorir62974 жыл бұрын

    This is a national treasure. History that we cannot afford to lose.

  • @florencekimotho887

    @florencekimotho887

    2 ай бұрын

    National treasure? You savor watching nasty colonialists roaming your backyard? What is wrong with u

  • @florencekimotho887

    @florencekimotho887

    Ай бұрын

    National treasure ur ass

  • @opticsmallty4322
    @opticsmallty43227 жыл бұрын

    That was splendid, Sir! cant believe i was born in the 90s missed so much!!! Almost made tear a bit.

  • @Swahili1

    @Swahili1

    6 жыл бұрын

    you want to be have been born during colonialism? Your mad!!

  • @tafari988

    @tafari988

    6 жыл бұрын

    You would have been a servant boy back then, and is that what you wish for dumbass! 😂

  • @MrMaboboz

    @MrMaboboz

    5 жыл бұрын

    Missed a lot of ass whoppings and torture. How's that for something to tear up about.

  • @napoleonkaruri7577

    @napoleonkaruri7577

    5 жыл бұрын

    Poor boy you must be thinking you'd be a lord living in a palace in the white highlands of Nakuru 😂😂😂😂😂😂 A tea boy would be your best occupation at that time And after feeling the cruelty and suppression of the colonizer; then you could tear for the right reasons

  • @dinisrealm3240

    @dinisrealm3240

    4 жыл бұрын

    You’re kidding me

  • @mikekukral2148
    @mikekukral21483 ай бұрын

    At 4:35 this is the Menengai Crater near Nakuru (actually a caldera). You can see smoke rising from it. I've been there several times. Great to watch.

  • @JamesBrown-ij1px
    @JamesBrown-ij1px2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Fascinating.

  • @florencekimotho887

    @florencekimotho887

    2 ай бұрын

    Nope. unfascinated by colonialists in my backyard.

  • @LawrenceRoss1906
    @LawrenceRoss1906 Жыл бұрын

    If you ever wanted to read a book that chronicled the cruelty of the colonial government, Imperial Reckoning is that book. It's very difficult to get through.

  • @MainaGakere

    @MainaGakere

    Жыл бұрын

    Very difficult. Esepecially to the locals who were held in camps.

  • @MrKenantheboss

    @MrKenantheboss

    10 ай бұрын

    even this video doesnt sit right with me it's fascinating to the descendants of our slave masters though

  • @boocackeedquackhead8454

    @boocackeedquackhead8454

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@MrKenanthebossI wonder what your reaction would be if you did a dna test and found your ancestors sold slaves. Old footage is indeed fascinating.

  • @leonshamalla05

    @leonshamalla05

    6 ай бұрын

    @@boocackeedquackhead8454 that isn’t true since there was no Slave trade in Eastern Africa, West Africans had the transatlantic Slave trade. When East Africans were slaves they were traded to the Omani Kingdom in the Middle East thats the only slave trade that happened in EA. This Video only shows what the Brits enjoyed on Stolen land, its no reason to argue about it now but that’s the truth, my own Grandma saw her parents killed by Monsterous british soldiers after they refused to take their religion and to this day that religion is all she has to remember them.

  • @boocackeedquackhead8454

    @boocackeedquackhead8454

    6 ай бұрын

    @@leonshamalla05 You are a moron.

  • @george8054
    @george80547 жыл бұрын

    The town at 7.45 is definitely Nakuru. Alot has changed.

  • @mikekukral2148
    @mikekukral21483 ай бұрын

    I've stayed and lectured at Egerton University in Njoro in this region. This is one of the most amazing countries on earth.

  • @JospherOkoth

    @JospherOkoth

    2 ай бұрын

    Sic donec

  • @teodelfuego
    @teodelfuego6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Almost like having a time machine

  • @blasiosefu3605
    @blasiosefu3605 Жыл бұрын

    Felt like I was there, good narration

  • @TokyobuckettsLive
    @TokyobuckettsLive5 жыл бұрын

    Those 'British' kids are all grown up and speaking Swahili

  • @TokyobuckettsLive

    @TokyobuckettsLive

    2 жыл бұрын

    After working for white people, I now know these people were probably broke back in England

  • @teopistorsind9874

    @teopistorsind9874

    2 жыл бұрын

    And here I am thinking they are all dead and in hell.

  • @florencekimotho887
    @florencekimotho8872 ай бұрын

    Was this the case 2 years after vid was taken # MAU?

  • @MartinIDavies
    @MartinIDavies7 жыл бұрын

    At 10:41 I think I see a pupil from 'Duke of York' School in school uniform as he walks quickly by the camera.. I attended the Duke of York in the mid 1960s thanks for posting .

  • @ibrahimgerrard611

    @ibrahimgerrard611

    6 жыл бұрын

    Are you still alive

  • @steveswakei9600

    @steveswakei9600

    5 жыл бұрын

    +Ibrahim Gerrard hehehehehehe thats funny

  • @MartinIDavies

    @MartinIDavies

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ibrahimgerrard611 fuck off

  • @MartinIDavies

    @MartinIDavies

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Lameck K go and be unpleasant to someone else.. silly little boy

  • @atienootieno1384

    @atienootieno1384

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MartinIDavies Can I please interview you?

  • @Wanamaker1946
    @Wanamaker19464 жыл бұрын

    Someone please educate me on the music. Who composed “Finlandia”? Jean Sybileus. This orchestration May be from theScandinavian Chorale(?) I think it’s by Mendelssohn, the Hebrides Suite.

  • @muturikanini9176
    @muturikanini9176 Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting clip...any family here that lived in Embu district in the 40/50s?

  • @jp95js
    @jp95js2 жыл бұрын

    Bwana Wade's relatives all perished in the Mau Mau uprising. Such was life in Africa in the those old days.Bwana Wade and his family certainly knew how to dress sensibly for the tropics with their suits, ties and jackets. Mad dogs and englishmen go out in the midday sun.

  • @gabistan2007
    @gabistan20074 жыл бұрын

    The british has enjoy a nice life..grabed the white highlands and the kenyan ppl was get poor.

  • @MartinIDavies

    @MartinIDavies

    4 жыл бұрын

    white highlands.. as it happens Africans did not like the highlands as it got to cold for them

  • @makanaki513

    @makanaki513

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MartinIDavies JA JA JA. So basically justifying that the people they found and tortured in the highlands were non-existent😂 next level white appropriation

  • @MartinIDavies

    @MartinIDavies

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@makanaki513 "people they found and tortured in the highlands" provide specific examples of both the 'torture'' and African farming practices in the white highlands prior to European arrival in early 1900s.. you wont be able to because Africans shunned the cold of the highlands and the 'tortures; never happened, I await your enlightened revelations

  • @florencemaelo7393

    @florencemaelo7393

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MartinIDaviesyou are delusional

  • @MartinIDavies

    @MartinIDavies

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@florencemaelo7393 go away

  • @twoeightfourtyone
    @twoeightfourtyone6 жыл бұрын

    I spent 27 years of my life in Kenya (not KEENYA as pronounced here!) So glad I arrived during 1973, well after Independence!.

  • @KIlonzo111

    @KIlonzo111

    5 жыл бұрын

    Where do you live now? If i may.

  • @makanaki513

    @makanaki513

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh, so you r leeegal smh!

  • @mikekukral2148
    @mikekukral21483 ай бұрын

    The tractor is a 1952-53 Ford Jubilee Model. We farmed with one and still own it.

  • @DJLOFTY

    @DJLOFTY

    27 күн бұрын

    Would be glad to see it

  • @gracemwangi1152
    @gracemwangi11524 жыл бұрын

    7:48 that's THIKA town what a wonder

  • @marlonmarvelousrichardson955
    @marlonmarvelousrichardson9553 жыл бұрын

    The Hypocrisy in this Video is sickening

  • @stephenpapworth7155

    @stephenpapworth7155

    3 жыл бұрын

    The commentary tries to avoid comment whiles offering a level of. Explanation about what the family are seeing and doing. Of course they are part of a sickening era in Britain’s dealings with the countries it colonialistes, and it reflects the British family’s values rather than ours.

  • @PennPearson
    @PennPearson18 күн бұрын

    Fascinating. It all looks so peaceful and civilized and the people are well dressed. Nobody seems to be armed. I wonder if the Mau Maus had started their uprising when this was filmed.

  • @JETPROPify
    @JETPROPify3 жыл бұрын

    I remember our arrival in Kenya🇰🇪 in those fun days and remember first sight of Rift Valley en route to Olkalou wanjoi valley

  • @bushido_2543

    @bushido_2543

    2 жыл бұрын

    do you remember a farm in lanet on your way to olkalou?

  • @LEARNFRENCHWITHTUVA

    @LEARNFRENCHWITHTUVA

    2 жыл бұрын

    Fun days you mean colonial? F**k you

  • @kemetancientafrica

    @kemetancientafrica

    10 ай бұрын

    What do you remember white man?

  • @JETPROPify

    @JETPROPify

    10 ай бұрын

    @@kemetancientafrica Great scenery and landscapes plus wonderful people

  • @kemetancientafrica

    @kemetancientafrica

    10 ай бұрын

    @@JETPROPify Bullshit. How many people did you kill under colonial rule?

  • @CarlosRoberto-xs1ky
    @CarlosRoberto-xs1ky2 жыл бұрын

    Send more videos 😃 or I must time travel and see it for myself

  • @okakafelix3644
    @okakafelix36442 жыл бұрын

    The Church at 2:19 looks like the All Saints Cathedral, Nairobi...

  • @mikekukral2148
    @mikekukral21483 ай бұрын

    The British did this all over the world. America, Australia, Africa. The manor houses of England were built with the wealth from resources of lands and people they conquered. It's amazing what a heavy footprint such a small country had in the world. Language is their longest lasting legacy.

  • @jowelmurythymyna8834
    @jowelmurythymyna8834 Жыл бұрын

    I love my country

  • @taucetus3657
    @taucetus36572 жыл бұрын

    The narrator and video shots seem as though you are talking about North Korea.

  • @barbaraatieno4187
    @barbaraatieno418711 ай бұрын

    Very beautiful

  • @ipcressipcress7810
    @ipcressipcress78107 жыл бұрын

    Settlers not tourists;)

  • @millym7270

    @millym7270

    3 жыл бұрын

    Myfather employed by the Kenyan govt as a teacher

  • @colmmintin9004
    @colmmintin90045 жыл бұрын

    I found it very interesting, what a pity it was poor photography ( Cameras ) I was there from 1952 to 55 in and around the white Highlands and Nairobi.

  • @charlieknges

    @charlieknges

    4 жыл бұрын

    ooh wow really?

  • @masterseedinv

    @masterseedinv

    3 жыл бұрын

    Write something about your experiences??

  • @samuelgicharu2351

    @samuelgicharu2351

    2 жыл бұрын

    Welcome back again colm m., it's a great pleasure to hear that as a youth of the Land, write something else that you saw going on or any experience

  • @MartinIDavies
    @MartinIDavies4 жыл бұрын

    can't help but notice an undertone of disapproval and disdain toward these fortunate British visitors as if they are doing something wrong or bad by recording what must sure'y have been their holiday of a lifetime

  • @Kenyan_Lady

    @Kenyan_Lady

    4 жыл бұрын

    Id love to converse with you! You studied in Duke of York?

  • @MartinIDavies

    @MartinIDavies

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Kenyan_Lady Yes I did indeed attend DUKO in the mid 60s.. I loved Kenya.. pronounced in the colonial fashion Keenya.. don't you know.. as we sat on the veranda at the Norfolk Hotel as the sun went down.. :-) do you know anyone who was also a pupil at that country club prison that was DUKO or our sister school Princo

  • @Kenyan_Lady

    @Kenyan_Lady

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MartinIDavies No sorry, I dont know anyone who did. It must have been a good life. I was just curious to listen to what you have to say

  • @makanaki513

    @makanaki513

    4 жыл бұрын

    YOU WERE OCCUPYING LAND THAT WAS FORCEFULLY ACQUIRED!!!!!

  • @MartinIDavies

    @MartinIDavies

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@makanaki513 I don't understand your point. All land in Africa was acquired as each African tribe displaced weaker tribes

  • @sandyhaley7329
    @sandyhaley73296 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful footage, I enjoyed watching, thanks for sharing.....However, I did not notice any race/class divide in the footage.......I simply saw different cultures at work......Different dress, different ways.....:)

  • @tonnyanthonys2159

    @tonnyanthonys2159

    3 жыл бұрын

    People tend to fuel division that way, instead they shu'd just say diversity

  • @neilnelson7603

    @neilnelson7603

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tonnyanthonys2159 Stop denying reality racial divide in British Kenya was so evident in the workplace. Your father and mother would have died as a servant of a British family till today.

  • @gregoryemmanuel9168

    @gregoryemmanuel9168

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you’re white that is so easy to say or not notice but from the native perspective that’s a very different story. There was a huge divide between race and class, it’s what the British brought with them and they promoted it in all their colonies since they first arrived as a way of dividing, conquering and ruling. They excelled at it and they caused much damage with it.

  • @neilnelson7603

    @neilnelson7603

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gregoryemmanuel9168, I couldn't say it better. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.

  • @boocackeedquackhead8454

    @boocackeedquackhead8454

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@gregoryemmanuel9168why do you say that? There's only a such thing as white or "native"? Fascinating, is this a global phenomenon?

  • @juddiecharity7864
    @juddiecharity78645 жыл бұрын

    Nakuru, Kenya's second City...

  • @heraldloshi1864

    @heraldloshi1864

    4 жыл бұрын

    Juddie Charity - Not yet a City dear.It is a work in great progress.Almost there,though.

  • @johnnjoroge2773

    @johnnjoroge2773

    3 жыл бұрын

    It was at that time.

  • @kevinligusi3525

    @kevinligusi3525

    3 ай бұрын

    Machakos was also Kenya's capital at some point. Things change over time.

  • @richardgaya3965
    @richardgaya3965 Жыл бұрын

    ... some of us witnessed in real time the tail end of the Muzungu's privileged life in Colonial Kenya !!!

  • @edwardwangombe2358
    @edwardwangombe23582 ай бұрын

    Thanks for these colonial relics which we swallowed, hook, bait and sinker. We must start decolonising our way of doing things. Give us one on kimathi

  • @MsIMLion
    @MsIMLion5 жыл бұрын

    If only the words of Mogo wa Kebiro would of been heeded, warning about the British, to be courteous to them but be suspicious of their intent, to keep them far from Gikuyu home land. That they would bring a great Iron snake that would stretch from the Ocean to what we know as Lake Victoria. He warned that Gikuyu and their neighbors would suffer because of them. There was a saying - Gtire ondo wa dneriri, nagowo Coomba no okainoka. / "the Europeans will no doubt, eventually go back to their own country." Well so much for that. I do have to say that Kenya owes a lot to how it is today because of Colonialism, still it upsets me though today. NOW Kenya welcomes China, building a NEW Iron snake. I wonder what Mogo wa Kebiro would have to say about them? China is rapidly becoming the new Colonialism. Sadly I could see the resurrection of the Mau Mau happening all over again. I guess we get what we desirve, we are friendly and kind to our own fault. Africa does not belong to them, it belongs to the children of Ngai.

  • @kibruto

    @kibruto

    5 жыл бұрын

    Remembering of course that the Kikuyu only migrated to around Mt Kenya 400 years ago

  • @makanaki513

    @makanaki513

    4 жыл бұрын

    The ciengere will keep coming until the day we build shrines for our wise counsellors, our ancestors. That is what The great Mugo said.

  • @memegod4433

    @memegod4433

    3 жыл бұрын

    I have a question, would you rather be ruled by the British or the Chinese?

  • @abdallah4842

    @abdallah4842

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@memegod4433 Would you rather be a slave or free man? Some questions are silly

  • @waimbuthia820

    @waimbuthia820

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was with you up to this pint: "I do have to say that Kenya owes a lot to how it is today because of Colonialism," What EXACTLY do we OWE people who stole our land, plundered our resources; tortured & killed our people, castrated our men & raped our women with broken glass & put cayen pepper in their private parts?!? And these monsters dared to call us "savages"? The thought of what these godless thieves/murderers did to my people turn my stomach! And all this white washed narration rendered in a sweet tone by obviously someone who agrees with the evils the colonialists brought to Keya & the rest of Africa also sickens me!!!! And, yes, re the Chinese poses same danger ro the whole of Africa. It's another menace already happening, alas, but I guess our so-called leaders never learned about history being repeated.

  • @gatheringleaves
    @gatheringleaves6 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if Richard Dawkins remembers this Kenya?

  • @tallybance

    @tallybance

    2 жыл бұрын

    He doesn't. He left at an early age

  • @ARi-gp3cm
    @ARi-gp3cm7 жыл бұрын

    Looks so British...

  • @joelaluoch2553
    @joelaluoch2553 Жыл бұрын

    I can clearly see Jamia Mosque

  • @fatumahassan364
    @fatumahassan3644 жыл бұрын

    Apart from Nairobi Kenya has not changed much

  • @MaddoxKillgore

    @MaddoxKillgore

    3 жыл бұрын

    Are you blind?!

  • @neilnelson7603

    @neilnelson7603

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MaddoxKillgore i don't she's a Kenyan. Probably a Somali

  • @ibrahimadan205

    @ibrahimadan205

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@neilnelson7603 and what's the problem of being a Kenyan somali? Are we not natives of Kenya? Actually we settle in 21% of total Kenyan land

  • @livelys.9013
    @livelys.90133 жыл бұрын

    most of the people in this film are long gone.

  • @mutuuramwangi1913

    @mutuuramwangi1913

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not really, I'm one of them, I was born in 1953 and I'm now 68. I'm one of the little boys you can see in the swahili village, present day Pumwani.

  • @junfa8686

    @junfa8686

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mutuuramwangi1913 what was it like then?

  • @rodongo5221
    @rodongo52213 жыл бұрын

    So, the majority shouldn't be Africans? Or am I confused, maybe this is a London borough 🤔

  • @guiltydwarf495

    @guiltydwarf495

    2 жыл бұрын

    As far as I gather, he is not talking generally about Kenya, there, but about that specific town/city, which I believe is Nakuru. Which was founded by the British and located in the so called White Highlands, the area reserved for European settlement. So the statement is not as stupid as some here make it out to be.

  • @irenemaelo5731

    @irenemaelo5731

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@guiltydwarf495 delusional

  • @Deggoo
    @Deggoo6 жыл бұрын

    Kenyans could have suffered from apartheid like South Africa.

  • @Signals927

    @Signals927

    6 жыл бұрын

    Not in a month of sundays.

  • @marvinmandela948

    @marvinmandela948

    5 жыл бұрын

    I actually doubt that. Don’t get me wrong, the British were quite racist in Kenya back then but segregation wasn’t a thing like in SA at the time

  • @MrMaboboz

    @MrMaboboz

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Mundia Kamau how is the problem in relation to our skin color?

  • @theturkanabus3610

    @theturkanabus3610

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Welsh Rebel 😂😂 Britain today is a joke, get out of the EU then talk

  • @keithwatson1384

    @keithwatson1384

    5 жыл бұрын

    theTurkanaBus we are trying. I do hope PST brexit we will look to the commonwealth for our future, as equals, we could work together for our own good!

  • @deise69
    @deise696 жыл бұрын

    No video footage of the british concentration camps there then ?

  • @Signals927

    @Signals927

    6 жыл бұрын

    And your point is ?

  • @keithwatson1384

    @keithwatson1384

    5 жыл бұрын

    You compare those camps like they were like the ones in Germany, they weren't, the were internment camps! To try and stop the mau mau from massacring innocent villages, full of Africans, not whites!

  • @MartinIDavies

    @MartinIDavies

    4 жыл бұрын

    and no video footage of the Mau Mau atrocities against the thousands of innocent Africans that were savagely murdered. by Mau Mau

  • @kayesacliff900

    @kayesacliff900

    2 жыл бұрын

    This was in the early 50s mahn mau mau uprising was in the making but the actual struggle for independence started in the late 50s and commenced all the way to the early 60s

  • @artisthusnatalal3099
    @artisthusnatalal30995 жыл бұрын

    Nakuru my childhood Town HOME OF FLAMINGOES!!!

  • @julietmoraa5106
    @julietmoraa51065 жыл бұрын

    I wonder what Kenya would have been like without British invasion?

  • @Blabla6676

    @Blabla6676

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@thonks8729 i disagree. Kenya is in the mess it is right now because of colonialism. Instead of allowing us to develop our own systems, institutions and way of life, they imposed their imperfect western one on us. A system where the elite few (back then the white Brits) ruled and everyone else suffered. Up to now, it is still the same story, except the elite few are our corrupt leaders and a few others. Decades later we still suffer from corruption, poverty and tribalism because of THEIR systems. Don't ever believe that the British 'saved' us from anything. Maybe it would have taken more time, but we are forever worse off because of them.

  • @julietmoraa5106

    @julietmoraa5106

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Blabla6676 I couldn't agree more!

  • @Blabla6676

    @Blabla6676

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@thonks8729 if you define a functioning society as one of social segregation, discrimination and white supremacy then, yes, Rhodesia was. They did take great lengths to develop it for themselves and only them. They never cared about us. Also, how could tribalism exist before colonialism? It's a direct result of forcing over 40 tribes into one country. Are you also a Kenyan?

  • @yvonne9227

    @yvonne9227

    4 жыл бұрын

    White people at it again. Kenya would be just fine without British invasion

  • @simonokoth6916

    @simonokoth6916

    4 жыл бұрын

    True and foolish sending them away they could let then stay like south African

  • @jahadibrahimtv7958
    @jahadibrahimtv79585 жыл бұрын

    Abu nuwasi yuwapi hapa???

  • @jahadibrahimtv7958

    @jahadibrahimtv7958

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Ali Ali we mbona mkundu wa kawaida tu, mkundu wako ulio jaa mishushu , kumamako , msenge sugu wewe mwenyewe mkundu wa malengelenge . mwanaharamu mkubwa laana za molana ziwe juu yako

  • @jahadibrahimtv7958

    @jahadibrahimtv7958

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Ali Ali kumamako , mkundu wako wavunja damu , kanyonye mboro wewe umezoea kunyonya kisha ushushiwe mdomoni shoga mkubwa , mwanaharamu , umezoea kukalia mboro msenge wewe , mi sitombi masenge katombwe huko mbele mbele , mkundu wako umefumuliwa vibaya sana mpaka hauezi zuia ushuzi kazi kujishutia ovyo ovyo tu kumamako, Shoga mkubwa,

  • @artisthusnatalal3099

    @artisthusnatalal3099

    4 жыл бұрын

    Toeni astaghfirullah waislamu nyinyi kweli? Hatoingia peponi mwenye mdomo mchafu!

  • @azizkarim8106
    @azizkarim81062 жыл бұрын

    It's not "Keen-yah", it's "Ken-yah"

  • @kayesacliff900

    @kayesacliff900

    2 жыл бұрын

    no its Keenya thats how any Britanian would say it

  • @francisgeere1849
    @francisgeere18497 ай бұрын

    God's own country.Such a great life in those days!!!😢

  • @calebmurenn7616

    @calebmurenn7616

    Ай бұрын

    Back in the days when Africans couldn't own property in their own country... It's infuriating how ignorant you are-a total disgrace.

  • @yvettejones4249
    @yvettejones42496 ай бұрын

    Kenyans did not choose to live in Shanti towns. It's funny how you didn't record apartheid going on or the ongoing racism. You didn't even go near the small black children on their land. It's not this family's property. It belongs to a black kenyan family that was stolen as usual.

  • @GladysMungai
    @GladysMungai2 ай бұрын

    This should come with a trigger warning

  • @michael-gs6kh
    @michael-gs6kh3 жыл бұрын

    Mzee Kenyatta once said " We had the land & The Missionaries had the bible,they taught us to pray with our eyes shut, & when we opened them we had the bible & they had the land!"

  • @timtalk6285

    @timtalk6285

    3 жыл бұрын

    How ironic, Kenyatta ended keeping the grabbed land for himself and his cronies

  • @westmax8491

    @westmax8491

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@timtalk6285 just like his son, Uhuru gave a speech to some international investors of how Africa is not for the taking but the guy has awarded his family with state contracts and pushing a sham referendum called BBI

  • @samuelgicharu2351

    @samuelgicharu2351

    2 жыл бұрын

    It was absolute and true, unless you are sober and alert even your closest friend or neighbor will rob you everything you have or even your religious Leaders#the world is evil,no trust exists

  • @kayesacliff900

    @kayesacliff900

    2 жыл бұрын

    that Mzee after our independence decided to take a large portion of his for himself and his tribesmen

  • @autorepair2321

    @autorepair2321

    2 жыл бұрын

    His family ndio wahizi

  • @tonnyanthonys2159
    @tonnyanthonys21593 жыл бұрын

    Legends says that that hyena is long gone and dead

  • @immaculate2494
    @immaculate24946 жыл бұрын

    Grabs popcorn

  • @kimuei
    @kimuei3 жыл бұрын

    Where is the segregation camp

  • @StephendelRoser

    @StephendelRoser

    3 жыл бұрын

    To me it looks as if the whole country was a segregation camp.

  • @twitterrandoms4057
    @twitterrandoms40573 жыл бұрын

    All these folks in this video are probably dead by now

  • @paulworthington8666
    @paulworthington8666 Жыл бұрын

    Kenya, like all other former British colonies in Africa, has thrived since independence, with greater prosperity, better infrastructure, health services, education, rule of law, and much less corruption than they would ever have had if British rule had contimued.

  • @TheJamaa001

    @TheJamaa001

    Жыл бұрын

    yes kenya of today and the the kenya of 1950 are vastly different, there is greater prosperity, kenya is now a middle income country with alot better infrastructure,health,education,rule of law than there ever was during to the colonial period, a visit to nairobi city should open your mind so you can reflect on the growth and changes, yes so indeed kenya has made alot of progress

  • @killion9406
    @killion94065 жыл бұрын

    All these people are probably now dead

  • @owl2944

    @owl2944

    4 жыл бұрын

    not the kids. my grandad was there in the early 50s, his father working in the military. he's 70 now.

  • @joywairimu2372
    @joywairimu23723 жыл бұрын

    The narrator's dripping condescension and latent contempt is distracting.....

  • @MrKenantheboss
    @MrKenantheboss10 ай бұрын

    the fucking nerve of these Caucasians

  • @juliuswachira1379
    @juliuswachira13792 жыл бұрын

    They stole from us

  • @maxwellfan55
    @maxwellfan557 ай бұрын

    Tiresome, politically affected commentary. So droll, so lame. Fact is, the British made Kenya, brought hope, law and order, investment, opportunity and prosperity for the future.

  • @brenstar6412
    @brenstar64122 жыл бұрын

    I can't! These people don't even belong there. So disrespectful to these African.

  • @simonokoth6916
    @simonokoth69164 жыл бұрын

    Life was good by then ,,mzee jomo was fool to send White pple ,yet he could do like Mandela Kenya was good place like south Africa

  • @neilnelson7603

    @neilnelson7603

    3 жыл бұрын

    There is nothing i hate more than an African that glorifies institutional racism imposed by Europeans. South Africans form majority of poor in South Africa right now. Nothing to be proud of.

  • @sam3407

    @sam3407

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@neilnelson7603 that’s the lowest form of a person in society… they can’t think 🤦🏾‍♂️ they should experience some racism and then follow up with reviewed comments

  • @kayesacliff900

    @kayesacliff900

    2 жыл бұрын

    get your facts right Jomo Kenyatta did not chase any whites they themselves decided to left the country the killings of the whites by the maumau was so out of their expectations they thought they were safe but maumau proved to be slick with their killings even to the extent of killing their own tribesmen and women who were siding with the whites now tell me who would like to stay in a place where they will be in fear of what the people might do to them no British would have done so if you ask me

  • @kayesacliff900

    @kayesacliff900

    2 жыл бұрын

    and I agree with you the beauty of this country back during the colonial times was all because of the whites but the labour was from the Africans like you I wish that a good percentage of them should have remained in the country instead of fleeing back to britain

  • @karanjakm2993

    @karanjakm2993

    2 жыл бұрын

    Seem watu wa lake side hawana akili, ndio maana wanajiita lueopena, seem you like to be huma toilet

  • @themadfarmer5207
    @themadfarmer5207 Жыл бұрын

    There will always be a race,/class divide. There has always been. There has always been a religious divide. There will always be. It is not a great problem until one side or the other shoves their religion/race/class into another's face. Kenya at that time seems, emphasis on seems, to be prosperous for some but not poverty stricken for the natives. It is more usual for natives to emphasise the divide on nationalist grounds rather than on economic or racial grounds. Kenya got a lot of benefits from the hated Brits. Cars, buildings, architecture, agriculture. The little Ferguson tractor..so very British. Lots of cars .. so very British. Road development. So on. They should have used colonialism to their advantage. Anyway the clock has ticked on. Africans like to play drums and dance and fight. Islam is taking advantage of their complacency, and is becoming the oppression of the future

  • @ericmwash6183

    @ericmwash6183

    Жыл бұрын

    Hardly went through your lengthy snooty British rant. Glad the likes of you don't exist in modern day Kenya.

  • @NgugiKamau-rr3zp

    @NgugiKamau-rr3zp

    8 ай бұрын

    If there was a hard truth this is it! Africans never learn!