by admin | Nov 15, 2012 | Dick Hedges
If you ask any male from the developed world or Kenya over the age of eighteen, “Can you drive?” he will probably be irritated with what he considers a totally unnecessary question and will reply that of course he can and he will think to himself, and better than...
by Shel Arensen | Nov 15, 2012 | Shel Arensen
Northrup – The Life of William Northrup McMillan is now available to purchase online. In the US it can be purchased for $15 at Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com In Europe it is available for £9.50 on Amazon.co.uk Book details: Northrup is the story of a...
by admin | Nov 5, 2012 | Dick Hedges
I have reason to believe the phenomenon I am about to describe is not peculiar to myself as several of my contemporaries have found it so. I wonder if it was also so in settler days and if any other geriatric Kenyaphiles have experienced it. Mine is an extreme example...
by Shel Arensen | Oct 31, 2012 | Shel Arensen
I just posted a poem about Africa and the memories one has after leaving the continent. It was posted on a facebook group called Kenyan friends reunited. We are wondering if any Old Africa readers or friends knows who wrote the poem. As I read it, it brought back...
by Shel Arensen | Oct 31, 2012 | Shel Arensen
I was born in Africa and its seasons shaped my soul.
I knew my place beneath the sun, the warm earth made me whole,
Those arching skies and brilliant stars fixed my position there,
That brooding space my boundary, the far horizons clear.
I belonged to Africa and...
by admin | Oct 25, 2012 | Dick Hedges
Anybody who ran a car in Kenya during the 1950s or 1960s will recall the name ‘Hassanali,’ because that was the name of the Asian parts dealer in River Road, Nairobi. He sold large amounts of spare parts for motorcars at half the price the main vehicle agents sold...
by Christine Nicholls | Oct 24, 2012 | Christine Nicholls
I was pleased to read the article ‘Kenya High School Days’ in the October-November Old Africa. I was one of those who helped with fundraising for the new school chapel. We were each given some money at the end of a term and told to increase it with work in the...
by admin | Oct 22, 2012 | Elaine Barnett
My family lived in Katangulu, an AIM mission station in Tanganyika, back in the mid-1940s following World War II. We lived about two miles from the shore of Lake Victoria, the world’s second largest lake and we frequently traveled by boat on a varied assortment of...
by Jon Arensen | Oct 22, 2012 | Jon Arensen
For much of my working career I have been involved with the Murle people of South Sudan. I first met the Murle when Barb and I did a linguistic survey of the South Sudan in 1975. We were intrigued by these traditional people living on the floodplains and a year later...
by admin | Oct 10, 2012 | Dick Hedges
Have you ever been to a graduation ceremony in Kenya? I who claim to have done most things there are to do in Kenya had not until last week, and even then I only got as far as the main entrance to the Catholic University for Eastern Africa. Graduations from places of...
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