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c.1902. Kikuyu women
24/06/2025

c.1902. Kikuyu women

When a 30-year-old man impregnated a 38-year-old widow and her 13-year-old stepdaughter in 2003, the community forced hi...
24/06/2025

When a 30-year-old man impregnated a 38-year-old widow and her 13-year-old stepdaughter in 2003, the community forced him to marry them and disgraced all three with boos and spit.

"The police had shown interest in the matter, but neighbours strictly warned them to steer clear."

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His Majesty Hayle Selassie I at the age of 4, when He was known as Lij Teferi
24/06/2025

His Majesty Hayle Selassie I at the age of 4, when He was known as Lij Teferi

A young Jeff Koinange with the late Nelson Mandela.
24/06/2025

A young Jeff Koinange with the late Nelson Mandela.

Koolbiri, known as 'Mailman Jimmy' who for many years carried the mail on foot between Fowlers Bay and Eucla in the earl...
24/06/2025

Koolbiri, known as 'Mailman Jimmy' who for many years carried the mail on foot between Fowlers Bay and Eucla in the early days of colonial settlement on the South Australian West Coast.

Following Mailman Jimmy's death the Saturday Journal reported on 25 August 1923; "He was the Royal Mail between Fowlers Bay and Eucla for many years.

He ran with the mail bags every fortnight from the Bay to Eucla, a distance of 280 miles, and returned during the following fortnight.

He could do the journey in faster time than a man on horseback, owing, it was presumed to be his superior bushcraft skills, and his knowledge of the reliable water supplies...."

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Almost a century later, Mirning elder Bunna Lawrie said Koolbiri's story was a source of pride.

"The only man who could walk as fast as a horse," he said.

"Some people really didn't believe it – they thought, 'This man must be a magic man.'"

Mr Bunna hoped other people would learn about this, and draw inspiration from, the mailman's story in the future.

Tom Gara, a historian who has worked with Aboriginal people on the Nullarbor since the 1980s, said Koolbiri's incredible feats were still remembered, both in records and in oral histories.

"He's quite well known in the early historical sources relating to the Nullarbor Plain," Mr Gara said.

Without Koolbiri's efforts, Mr Gara believes the new Eucla settlement would have had no means to communicate at all.

Mr Gara guessed Koolbiri probably did the mail run from about 1871-72 until 1875-76, before the telegraph station was built in 1877.

While Mr Gara said mail was delivered on foot by other postmen, he had never heard of any travelling nearly as far as Koolbiri.

"He was supposedly rewarded with to***co, which sounds like a pretty meagre payment for what he was doing," Mr Gara said.

The author of Koolbiri's obituary also noted he took almost nothing with him, aside from the mailbags.

"He survived by hunting along the way, and getting his water from the r

The first car to travel from Nairobi to Mombasa, 1926.
24/06/2025

The first car to travel from Nairobi to Mombasa, 1926.

Women from the Issa clan in Somaliland, 1909
24/06/2025

Women from the Issa clan in Somaliland, 1909

July 13, 1990 — Barely a few months after walking free from 27 years behind bars, Nelson Mandela rolled through Nairobi ...
24/06/2025

July 13, 1990 — Barely a few months after walking free from 27 years behind bars, Nelson Mandela rolled through Nairobi streets alongside his wife Winnie and President Moi in the back of Kenya’s iconic Land Rover. Mandela waved with hope, Winnie raised her fist like the revolutionary she was, and Moi minded his rungu and kept it presidential. Three icons of Africa — all riding through Nairobi like freedom just landed! Because well, it had.

Caught in the rain in the Ginza district, Tokyo, Japan, 1969
23/06/2025

Caught in the rain in the Ginza district, Tokyo, Japan, 1969

American aviator Matilde Moisant, 1912. She was the second woman in the United States to get a pilot's license.
23/06/2025

American aviator Matilde Moisant, 1912. She was the second woman in the United States to get a pilot's license.

Nairobi morning view , zero filters just the normal massive city 🇰🇪
23/06/2025

Nairobi morning view , zero filters just the normal massive city 🇰🇪

A stagecoach crossing a bridge in Silverton, Colorado in 1890.
23/06/2025

A stagecoach crossing a bridge in Silverton, Colorado in 1890.

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