by Shel Arensen | Aug 17, 2022 | Shel Arensen
Bluff is Old Africa’s latest book, an autobiography that is set in Malindi on the Kenya coast from the 1940s until the 1970s. Written by Thomas Allfree, a fisheries officer and one of Malindi’s ‘characters,’ this book evokes life in the coastal...
by Christine Nicholls | Aug 9, 2022 | Christine Nicholls
Arms Trade in East Africa In 1847 the missionary Johann Ludwig Krapf saw a caravan taking 1000 muskets inland; this was just one example of the vast number of arms supplied to the interior of Africa. When traders, Arab and other, reached Uganda it was common for them...
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