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Car Racing in Langalanga
Standing on a bit of broken-up tarmac road above Gilgil last week, it was hard to believe that 60 years before this was the place for Kenya's 'Petrol Heads' to gather on weekends and race around the three-mile track in MG-T series sports cars. Old Africa reader, Harry...
Sailing to Africa
January 1946 A well-traveled ship, the seaworthy freighter Gripsholm would be our home for our trip to North Africa. High cranes and derricks covered its deck with little room to accommodate extra passengers as it crossed the Atlantic Ocean. As a three-year-old, my...
Lions in Langata?
It is about a mile from Margaret Downey’s house to the Giraffe Centre. On Saturday 11th February 2012, Margaret rang up the Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) because two large female lions, assumed to be mother and daughter, had been prowling around her plot and her staff...