An American Family in Amin’s Uganda

An American Family in Amin’s Uganda

Book Review from the Madison Capital Times on Old Africa’s new book by Bert Adams. When Bert Adams packed up his family and left Madison for a two-year stay in the fledgling East African nation of Uganda in 1970, he took along a simple mantra. “From the day we...
Book Review: Under the Shadow of the Oath

Book Review: Under the Shadow of the Oath

Here’s an excellent book review by Jeremy Hooker on one of our recent Old Africa book titles. The review first appeared in August 2013 in the Powys Journal no XXIII and we thank the Powys Journal and Jeremy Hooker for their permission to share the book review here....
Cricket in Latest Old Africa mag

Cricket in Latest Old Africa mag

Yesterday we mailed out Old Africa issue 45, our February-March 2013 issue. Subscribers should get theirs soon and it should be for sale in Nairobi shortly as well. The magazine features a story on the Kenya Kongonis Cricket Club, which has nurtured young cricket...
Endless Horizons

Endless Horizons

Some of the stories in Old Africa’s latest book – Endless Horizons by Mike Prettejohn – are mind-boggling. The author describes rescuing a schoolmate who fell into the crater at Longonot, he recounts being pummelled by a buffalo, he goes into great detail about a trip...

Journalistic Career In Reverse

I reflected on my journalistic career recently and found out that I have been going backwards. My first assignment in Kenya in 1981 was to Kesho Publications in Kijabe. Kesho means tomorrow and was founded by my father and John Ndeti Somba and others in 1960 to...