by Shel Arensen | Dec 27, 2010 | Shel Arensen
Drinking the Wind: Memoirs of an African Odyssey by Jon Arensen Drinking the Wind traces the life of Jon Arensen who arrived on the African continent with his parents in 1946. Growing up in Tanganyika in the bush by Lake Victoria, Jon learned Kisukuma before he spoke...
by Shel Arensen | Jan 27, 2010 | Shel Arensen
It sounds more like a Mrs Pollifax mystery novel. Katharine Fannin, a surveyor’s wife from Kenya made an informal spying trip trhough Italian-held Ethiopia and was hosted by the highest government officials in Addis Ababa. Later she received commendations from...
by Shel Arensen | Feb 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
The Lion Roars at Dawn On a camping trip to Maasai Mara I had a new kijana as my camp helper to make the fire in the morning for chai. We slept in different tents. Early one morning I called to him to go make the fire. I heard the kijana getting up and the tent...
by Shel Arensen | Feb 22, 2009 | Shel Arensen
1909 Charles Hughes spent his honeymoon in Kenya as the writer and secretary for the great African Balloonograph Expedition. His bride Anna didn’t join him. She spent their honeymoon with her mother in Europe. The couple’s strange start to married life is entwined...
by Shel Arensen | Feb 21, 2009 | Shel Arensen
Author: John Cherry Adapted from a 1955 East African Standard newspaper article written by John Cherry. The article also appeared in Awaaz magazine and was submitted to Old Africa by Alif Din’s son Ehsan H. Malik from Nairobi. 1912 “I need a volunteer to inspect the...
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