Kisoi Munyao was an outdoors buff. He loved mountain climbing. That’s just how the singular honour of hoisting the Kenyan flag on Mt Kenya’s Lenana Point on the eve of December 12, 1963 ...

but I was the one raising Kenya’s flag at Langata barracks,” he said. According to a Kenya Gazette dated May 21, 1963, Barno was among several officers promoted to the rank of lieutenant from ...

Hours after the initial flag raising, a Marine officer deemed the flag too small and ordered a second, larger flag to be raised. While Thomas had already spoken to a radio station about the ...