by admin | Feb 4, 2026 | Christine Nicholls
As part of their attempts to counter the Slave Trade, the British sent Atkins Hamerton to Zanzibar in 1842 to discover the extent of the trade in human beings. He was lent a house by Seyyid Said, the Sultan of Zanzibar, on the foreshore near the Sultan’s palace. It...
by admin | Dec 22, 2025 | Christine Nicholls
In the last Old Africa, Karen Rothmyer talked of the 1923 rebellion in ‘When Kenya’s White Settlers Threatened UDI’, so I thought I would provide further details about it. Winston Churchill had proposed a common electoral role, one Indian member on the Executive...
by admin | Nov 30, 2022 | Christine Nicholls
Logan Hook, tall and handsome, a submarine commander in the First World War, went to Kenya in 1921. He took his family to Nanyuki where for 15 years they lived in a grass house which cost them £15.00 to build. As they knew nothing about farming, they established the...
by admin | Jul 8, 2019 | Judy Aldrick
Sharing Northrup’s Millions by Judy Aldrick I always enjoy receiving feedback and discovering new information. It makes writing about East African history all the more worthwhile for me. Imagine my surprise when several years after my book about Sir Northrup...
by admin | May 14, 2015 | Only in Africa
About 1910 my father W.J. Dawson, known always as W.J., bought the Plains Dairy, that vast flatland where the Nairobi Airport is today. He and three other young Scotsmen had great times in the corrugated iron house he built there. The others were George Taylor, Will...
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