Here are Kenya's oldest lawyers, law firms

Argwings Kodhek

Many things were happening in 1899. Uhuru Kenyatta’s old guy had been born eight years earlier in ‘the year of the sweet potato.’

The Uganda railway had snaked its way and was almost nearing Kisumu, with over 2,000 dead along the ‘Lunatic Line.’ Captain Lugard was ending his two-year term as the Consul General of Uganda on his way to colonising 10 million Nigerians, with seven officers, when he was the High Commissioner, as Martin Meredith informs us in his 2011 tome, State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence.