Dick and Diana Hedges arrived in Nairobi in 1956 overland from Newport Pagnell, UK in their beloved ex-army ambulance. (A photo of their arrival appeared on Old Africa’s...
The phrase ‘from rags to riches’ has stood the test of time since it was coined in the Georgian days of the English speaking world to describe the one in ten thousand fortunate working class person who had overcome all the barriers the ruling class had thought out to stop him and had succeeded in climbing the ladder to material success. In Kenya, however, this has ceased to be true.
The gap between the developed and the developing world is becoming wider every year, despite half a century of promises that it would soon close. The tiny number of the establishment ruling corporate capitalists became fewer and fewer...
Christine Nicholls, author and historian, has written several books on East African history including Red Strangers: The White Tribe of Kenya, a biography on missionary-explorer David...
Jon Arensen, PhD Oxford University, is professor of cultural anthropology at Houghton College in New York. He is the director of Houghton’s Tanzania Semester. Jon lives with his wife Barb in...
Elaine Donner Barnett came to Tanganyika as a young girl in 1946. Later she married John Barnett at Kijabe, Kenya in the 1960s, with then vice-president Daniel Moi attending the service....
