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Hello and welcome to the Witness Podcast with me Alex Last and as part of our week-long series to commemorate 100 years since the end of the

first world war I've been listening to some very rare recordings of East African veterans talking about their

experiences of the Great War. During the four years of fighting, over a million Africans were

conscripted to serve in British and German colonial forces.

In 1914, a foreign war came to villages across British East Africa. The White District Commissioner came from Machacchagos.

The White District Commissioner came from Machacagos.

He called the old men together with the local chief.

Then he told them he needed people 20 or 30.

So the old man proposed men from different families to make the list.

The white commissioner had traveled with two police officers who then laid the recruits back to Machakos.

We went to Nogvie's office. He was in charge then. They were looking for young men who

paid taxes and we were told married men were not desirable. They said that married man

who they escaped from the King's African rifle because his woman would always be on his mind.

There were 100 of us from Govis area.

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