by Christine Nicholls | Apr 20, 2015 | Christine Nicholls
Phyllis (‘Pippa’) Ada Latour Doyle was awarded France’s highest honour, the Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur, on 25 November 2014, by the French ambassador to New Zealand. What prompted this gesture? An extraordinary story has emerged of an ex-Kenya girl, now 93, and...
by Christine Nicholls | Mar 21, 2015 | Christine Nicholls
Who were the Garvies and why did they come to the Uasin Gishu Plateau? The first white residents on the Plateau were the van Breda brothers – Bon, Dirk and Piet, who arrived in 1902. In the same year two more families arrived – Donald Garvie, a Scotsman, and his...
by Christine Nicholls | Feb 19, 2015 | Christine Nicholls
In 1912 Eldoret did not even have a name. It consisted of a few dukas (small shops), a bar, the District Commissioner’s house and a post office. It was called ‘Sixty-four’ by the few Boers and Britons who farmed in the area because such was the number on the map of...
by Christine Nicholls | Jan 20, 2015 | Christine Nicholls
One of the first white residents in the Trans-Nzoia region was Arthur Cecil Hoey. Who was Hoey? He was born in Wimbledon in 1883 and baptised on 12 October that year, the son of John Hoey and his wife Matilda Jane, née Tront, who came from Dublin. In 1891 the...
by Christine Nicholls | Dec 22, 2014 | Christine Nicholls
Merry Christmas, Everyone! Briton versus Boer: Educational Tensions in the Trans-Nzoia After the Second World War, the British Government encouraged white settlers to go to the Trans-Nzoia area and Uganda. Of course this increased the number of children to be...
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