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 admin | Mar 26, 2015 | Shel Arensen
The Third Annual Salama Fikira Kenya Derby 2015 For the third consecutive year, Salama Fikira will be sponsoring the Kenya Derby on Sunday 12th April 2015 at the Ngong Racecourse in Nairobi, Kenya. The Kenya Derby is the biggest event of its kind in East Africa’s...
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 Jon Arensen | Feb 5, 2015 | Jon Arensen
In the world today there are over 50 million refugees – people who have left their homes under catastrophic conditions and are struggling to survive in limbo without place or country. It is difficult for us to get our minds around the magnitude of this many...
by Shel Arensen | Feb 4, 2015 | Shel Arensen
This advert was in featured in the Globe Trotter newspaper published in Nairobi in 1906.
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...
by Shel Arensen | Dec 16, 2014 | Shel Arensen
Available now from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk Poison of the Arrow: A Tale of Quest & Survival by Iain MacDonald The world is changing. Kigusu the magnificent elephant whose great tusks and cunning have become whispered legend around the smoky fires of the African...
by Christine Nicholls | Nov 20, 2014 | Christine Nicholls
Early White Settlers from Britain in Trans-Nzoia Mrs Gladys Hoey reached the plateau in 1913, arriving with her father in an ox wagon. Her future husband, Cecil, later a breeder of racehorses, had reached the Nzoia river in 1904 when on a hunting expedition....
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