by Christine Nicholls | Mar 2, 2020 | Christine Nicholls
Talbot Mundy Everyone has heard of Rider-Haggard, but there was a contemporary novelist of almost as great renown who spent years of his life in Kenya – Talbot Mundy. His most famous book is King of the Khyber Rifles, and he also wrote 47 bestsellers and scores of...
by Christine Nicholls | Dec 30, 2019 | Christine Nicholls
A Maverick Politician – Shirley Victor Cooke In the very early days of colonial Kenya it was rare for officials to assume that the welfare of the native population should be paramount. One such man was SV Cooke. Born at Ennistimon, County Clare, in 1888, he was the...
by Christine Nicholls | Dec 17, 2019 | Christine Nicholls
Database of Europeans in East Africa 1880-1939 A database prepared by Peter Ayre and Christine Nicholls is now on the internet at http://www.europeansineastafrica.co.uk It features 25,000 Europeans who were in East Africa (mainly in Kenya) before 1939 and provides...
by Christine Nicholls | Dec 8, 2019 | Christine Nicholls
Nairobi in the 1920s After the end of World War I Nairobi started to develop as a town. It had a population of 8,000 Europeans, 8,000 Asians and an indeterminate number of Africans. Lying at mile 327 of the Uganda Railway, it was at an altitude of 5,575 feet,...
by Christine Nicholls | Oct 31, 2019 | Christine Nicholls
Tea and Limuru School What have Kenya tea and Limuru Girls’ School got in common? The answer is Arnold Butler McDonell, the founder of both the Kenyan tea industry and Limuru School. Three McDonell brothers, Ronald, George and Arnold, and their sister Gertrude...
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