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Remembering Cynthia Salvadori
We were all saddened to receive the news of Cynthia Salvadori's passing in late June. She was a good friend and regular contributor to Old Africa magazine. We will have a tribute to Cynthia in our August-September magazine written by Neera Kapur-Dromson. But here's...
We are now selling PDF copies of Old Africa!
We have had a lot of people asking if they could just buy a PDF copy of Old Africa. Well we are now happy to say, YES to that question. On our SUBSCRIPTION page you can now purchase single issues or even subscribe for 1 or 2 years to our digital copy. Please note...
New Title from Old Africa Books
Drinking the Wind: Memoirs of an African Odyssey by Jon Arensen Drinking the Wind traces the life of Jon Arensen who arrived on the African continent with his parents in 1946. Growing up in Tanganyika in the bush by Lake Victoria, Jon learned Kisukuma before he spoke...