by Jon Arensen | Dec 28, 2012 | Jon Arensen
Located on the west side of the mighty Nile River is the town called Juba. In the 1980’s this town functioned as the capital of southern Sudan, but it was a small place with only two miles of paved road and a few government buildings. Most of the inhabitants still...
by Christine Nicholls | Dec 17, 2012 | Christine Nicholls
I’ve recently taken over the editorship of Jambo, the magazine for the East Africa Women’s League (UK). The EAWL is still going strong in both Kenya and Britain. I looked up some notes I had made for my book Red Strangers and found details of the early EAWL in...
by admin | Dec 16, 2012 | Dick Hedges
There is a common misconception that Christmases are not as enjoyable as they were in the past. In any case celebrating Christmas in the tropics never has been and never will be as good as celebrating it in the Northern Hemisphere. Of the many abilities of the early...
by Jon Arensen | Dec 12, 2012 | Jon Arensen
Hunting is the avocation of most little boys that grow up in East Africa and I was no exception. At the age of ten I was given a .22 rifle by my father and taught how to use it. I started by shooting at paper targets mounted on termite hills and then moved on to...
by Shel Arensen | Dec 10, 2012 | Shel Arensen
Some of the stories in Old Africa’s latest book – Endless Horizons by Mike Prettejohn – are mind-boggling. The author describes rescuing a schoolmate who fell into the crater at Longonot, he recounts being pummelled by a buffalo, he goes into great detail about a trip...
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