A Mau Mau veteran watches the arrival of King Charles III at Nairobi's Eastlands Library to meet with the public on the first day of his four-day state visit to Kenya. "I am happy that he has come so that he feels the shame of our situation and how they left us," says John Ndege Kam. The visit by the British monarch, accompanied by Queen Camilla, has been clouded by calls for an apology over Britain's bloody colonial past. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES