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Do you know how the first power company operated in Kenya?

Power and monopoly of light and darkness was vested in a single entity, Mombasa Electricity Company. [Courtesy]

In matters electricity, we reflect on days gone by when the windmills of the gods ruled and one company held the switch to light Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

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