Why Taita-Taveta will never forget First World War

In this 2014 picture, British High Commissioner Christian Turner photographs a grave at Voi, Taita-Taveta County, during the World War I centenary event. Locals, especially the Wakasigau, were forcibly moved from the war arena where the British fought Germans who were invading from Tanganyika, now Tanzania. [Renson[Mnyamwezi/Standard]

As Taita-Taveta County commemorates World War 1, distressing memories still linger in the minds of the Wakasigau community in the Voi sub-county.

WWI, which ended in 1918 remains etched in the minds of the community, one of the Taita sub-ethnic for a long period to come.