Kisii town in 1966
The young town three years after independence — compare with the boom town it became.
This photograph shows Kisii town centre in the 1960s: low-rise, orderly, a district headquarters on red earth roads. The same highlands' commercial energy visible in today's crowded Marikiti market was already gathering here.
Cultural context
Archival photograph held in the digital museum's visual record. See the image caption for source and licence.
