GERMAN POST OFFICE

German nationals Clement Denhardt and G. A. Fisher first made contact with the Lamu hinterland in the late 1870s. They became friends to the Sultan of witu, Ahmed Abdullah Simba, who at the time was having trouble with the rulers of Lamu and Zanzibar. Witu became a German protectorate.They built a building that was the first German Post Office ever established along the East African coast in November 22nd 1888 by the Germans, led by Clement Denhardt. The communications and trade contacts for the German Protectorate in Witu could at the time be served through Lamu, which was a well established town with links to the outside world.The Post office operated for more than two years before its closure on March 3rd 1891 after the withdrawal of the German settlement in Witu.German Post Office now a Museum is located in Lamu old town, Lamu district in Coast Province Kenya.