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The late Mwai Kibaki and former EABL Chairman Sir Michael Blundell welcome the new chairman of EABL Kenneth Matiba in November 1977. [File, Standard]

Few settlers have had a more eventful life in Kenya than Michael Blundell, the Kenyan farmer and politician who later became Minister for Agriculture in colonial Kenya.

Blundell came to Kenya in 1925 with only £100 and a healthy dose of optimism.

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