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Arsenal fans celebrate their team winning the English Premier League, outside the Emirates Stadium in London on May 20, 2026. [AFP]
When Patrick Paul Vieira lifted Arsenal’s English Premier League trophy in 2004, petrol in Kenya was retailing at Sh64.99, Diesel was Sh51.60, while kerosene went for Sh38.19.
In 2004, the late president Mwai Kibaki was just two years into his presidency, The Thika Superhighway construction plan hadn’t been conceptualised, telecommunication company Airtel was going by the name Celtel and Kenya’s population was at 34.7 million (it’s now around 58.6 million).
Then, Kenya had just six fully chartered public universities (there are now over 35) and a similar number of chartered and accredited private institutions.
