It was May 1938 and war drums of World War II had started beating across the world.
Just like a few years earlier in 1915 during the build-up of the First World War, the British colonial government shifted its attention to Kenya to get soldiers to join its combat unit.
Although Kenyans loathed forced conscription, the war would have a future implication in building the profile of former US President Barack Obama.
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