During the coronation celebrations of King Edward VII and his queen, Alexandra, In August 1902, more than 2,000 representatives from the British empire's colonial forces took part in a procession that lined the streets of London. Among them was a contingent of black soldiers from the recently raised King's African Rifles, which had been formed to bring together the various imperial regiments in east Africa. So as the crowds cheered the procession as it passed through the capital on that August day, black faces were visible
