Kenya Gears up for Greater Expansion

With Jehovah’s organization moving ahead earth wide and with steady increases noticeable throughout East Africa, the time had come for the use of improved technology in Kenya. What excitement at the branch office in 1984 when the first of two IBM personal computers arrived from the Germany branch!

At first everyone was baffled by these new machines, but with Jehovah’s help and some simple instruction books, it did not take long to put the computers to work. Computers made it possible to enter text, which would be transferred to diskettes that could be sent to overseas printing branches. This offered great new possibilities. No longer did two or three proofs have to be sent back and forth between Britain and Kenya before the Swahili Watchtower could be printed. Now the Swahili Watchtower is printed at the same time as the English Watchtower, and all of Kenya’s congregations can study the same Bible material the same week.

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Kenya’s present branch office and Bethel Home in Nairobi after expansion