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Digital Kenya: A tale of too little too late

NAIROBI, KENYA: It was May 1890 when a regular postal service in British East Africa was introduced and post offices opened in Mombasa and the island of Lamu and in 1901 the Postal Services of British East Africa and Uganda were amalgamated.

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