249mm x 303mm

some edge wear and minor staining.

R800

Box 6, no26

The Sunday Post Kenya Review 1943 stands out as a fascinating, stark piece of wartime East African publishing history, published in Nairobi at the height of World War II.

Key Historical & Visual Aspects

• Focus on the King's African Rifles (KAR): The front cover features a striking silhouette photograph of an African soldier serving in the King's African Rifles (KAR), wearing a bush hat, shorts, puttees, and holding a bolt-action rifle under palm trees. By 1943, following the victory over Italian forces in Abyssinia and Somaliland, East African troops were being heavily retrained, reorganized, and deployed overseas to Madagascar and Burma to fight Japanese forces in the Far East.

• The Sunday Post Legacy: Unlike the more mainstream, government-aligned East African Standard, the Sunday Post was an influential independent weekly newspaper in Kenya known for its lively, opinionated coverage of local settler politics, military news, and social gossip. Its annual review provided an unfiltered snapshot of wartime domestic life, rationing, and local defense efforts across the colony.

• Striking Graphic Background & Text Pattern: The cover features a unique, modern graphic layout where the bold vertical title "SUNDAY POST" and horizontal "KENYA REVIEW" are set against a dense, repeated micro-pattern wallpaper composed entirely of the words SUNDAY POST.

• Wartime Inflation & Pricing: Priced at Three Shillings Fifty Cents (3/50), this special edition reflects the wartime economic adjustments and increased production costs in Nairobi during 1943. Material shortages caused by shipping blockades in the Indian Ocean forced publishers to rely on monochrome printing, local paper stocks, and high-impact photographic imagery.