Kenya pressed to document its role in two world wars

Operation Pilgrimage Group Austarlia Allan Miles and Co-founder and Deputy President Tsavo Heritage Foundation Wanjala Sio during the start of planning for the Commemoration of the End of the war during the East African Campaign of the First World War as annual event in Tsavo. [David Gichuru/Standard]

On August 8, 1914, The East African Standard carried a banner headline in bold, black ink - THE WAR.

It was the beginning of the coverage of the First World War (WWI), which broke out in Europe. The war was pitting German East Africa in then Tanzania against the British East Africa in Kenya started in August 1914 at the border town of Taita.