Posted by Sosten Kipng’eno , Kyle McPherson, Arnold Kiprono Langat , Evans Kipkirui Langat, Mercy Achieng’ and Sharon Maiyo
Nyanza Province is one of the main administrative provinces that were created in Kenya during the colonial period. The others were Coast, Northeastern, Rift Valley, Eastern, and Central provinces. The Nyanza Province is about 12,477 square kilometers [4,817 sq. miles] in size, about the size of the state of Connecticut, and is in the southwestern... Read more »
Posted by Joseph Ochieng’ Odwar, Cassandra Norman & Evans Nyambweke
On December 20, 1901, Florence Preston, the wife of the engineer building the Kenya-Uganda Railway, drove the last nail in the last sleeper (crosstie) of the railway by the shores of Lake Victoria. Port Florence thus came into being. However, the city was only called Port Florence for one year; it then reverted to its... Read more »
