A stylish Mbaraka Mwinshehe at his prime in an undated photograph. PHOTO I COURTESY OF JOHN KITIME
What you need to know:
As the Tanzanian People’s Defence Forces (TPDF) battled an invading army in Kagera in the war which climaxed with the toppling of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin ‘Dada’, something else had happened in neighbouring Kenya.
