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What the Delameres did for Kenya

26 October 2024

9:00 AM

26 October 2024

9:00 AM

Kenya’s Rift Valley

The story of Kenya’s Europeans such as the 5th Baron Delamere, who died recently, is one of hard work. In late 1897 his grandfather, the 3rd Baron, rode his horse up the Rift Valley’s eastern escarpment into the highlands. For a year he had been trekking through Somalia’s burning deserts and now he saw cool waters, green grass and fresh winds.

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