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He established Kenya's first newspaper, now known as The Standard, in 1901
The year is off by one. Standard Group histories say Jeevanjee started the African Standard in 1902, not 1901.
Full reasoning
This sentence misdates the founding of the newspaper that became The Standard. Standard Group’s own historical accounts state that Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee started the paper as the African Standard in 1902. A second Standard history likewise says that in 1902 Jeevanjee founded the weekly African Standard in Mombasa. So the claim that he established it in 1901 is contradicted by the newspaper’s own published histories.
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- Origin, ownership, editors, content and style as The Standard becomes largest in region
The newspaper based in Mombasa was started by an Indian merchant Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee in 1902, then registered as the African Standard...
- Eighty years later, Jeevanjee legacy lives on
In 1902, to counter racism socially and in the press... Jeevanjee founded the weekly African Standard, now Kenya's oldest newspaper, in Mombasa.
was the first non-white to be elected to the Legislative Council in 1910.
He was not elected to LegCo in 1910. Kenya Parliament’s own history says Jeevanjee was nominated in 1909, and that elections for members were only introduced later, with the first election in 1920.
Full reasoning
This claim is incorrect on both the method and the timing. A Parliament of Kenya history states that after agitation, Alibhai Mullah Jeevanjee was nominated to the Legislative Council in 1909. The same Parliament history also says the ordinance providing for elections was passed in 1919, and the first election was held in 1920. So he could not have been the first non-white elected to the Legislative Council in 1910.
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- History of the Parliament of Kenya (Factsheet No. 19)
However, after much agitation a non-European, Allibhai Mullah Jeevanjee, an Indian was nominated to the LegCo in 1909... This Ordinance was passed in 1919 and the first election was held in 1920.