by Christine Nicholls | May 21, 2013 | Christine Nicholls
I came across a letter written by Mrs Brian Shaw, of Sotik, in the early days of white settlement in Kenya. The hardships the settlers faced were enormous. When Brian Shaw developed acute appendicitis a doctor and nurse had to come from Nakuru, while friends and...
by Christine Nicholls | Apr 25, 2013 | Christine Nicholls
Surely it is time for another showing of the TV series of Elspeth Huxley’s book, The Flame Trees of Thika? Filming took place in Kenya in eighteen weeks before Christmas, 1980, with Hayley Mills playing Tilly, Elspeth’s mother, and Holly Aird as Elspeth. The filming...
by Christine Nicholls | Mar 21, 2013 | Christine Nicholls
The EAWL, which of course still flourishes in Kenya, was begun in 1917. Above is the College of Arms Grant of Arms in 1974. We had the annual general meeting of the East Africa Women’s League (UK branch) on Tuesday 19 March, at the Victory Services Club in London. The...
by Christine Nicholls | Feb 26, 2013 | Christine Nicholls
I was interested to read in the piece by Michael Aronson in Old Africa of Feb/March 2013 (Only in Africa section) that Michael had met Vladimir Verbi. I have always been interested in this man, a missionary tried for murder. When Canon Peter Bostock was still alive, I...
by Christine Nicholls | Dec 17, 2012 | Christine Nicholls
I’ve recently taken over the editorship of Jambo, the magazine for the East Africa Women’s League (UK). The EAWL is still going strong in both Kenya and Britain. I looked up some notes I had made for my book Red Strangers and found details of the early EAWL in...
by Christine Nicholls | Nov 20, 2012 | Christine Nicholls
A propos of my book A Kenya Childhood I have been reading two interesting books recently – An African Childhood by Janet Lewison andMishkid: a Kenyan Childhood by David Webster. Janet Lewison is the daughter of Charles Granston Richards, whom many will remember from...
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