Joginder Singh (1932-2013) was the first non-European ever to win an international rally, having won the Safari in 1965. He was a national icon who won the world-famous Safari Rally 3 times between the the 1960s and the 1970s, and earned himself the global title of ‘The Flying Sikh’ owing to his daredevil ways in which he drove his rally car to hit the finish line to the deafening roar from crowds of thousands of screaming African, Asian and European fans. Mzee Jomo Kenyatta (1897-1978), the founding and first President of Kenya was personally fond of Joginder Singh and accorded him the title of ’Simba ya Kenya’ (the Lion of Kenya).
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