These posts come from a feature we run in each issue of Old Africa sharing readers stories that could happen Only in Africa.
During World War II we sometimes saw black and white newsreels with moving pictures of how the war was progressing. We kids enjoyed watching the tanks clank across the screen firing rounds of ammunition. Sometimes the newsreels also showed other news. One time we watched a motorcycle daredevil drive off a ramp and fly over a group of men laid out on the ground like logs. This fired my imagination. I went and built a ramp of my own. Then I persuaded my brothers, Willard and Howard, to lie down on the ground. Trusting me, they agreed. I pushed my bike a long way behind my ramp, and then rode it as fast as I could. The ramp launched me into the air, but not as far as I had hoped and I landed on top of my brothers. I thought I could fix the ramp for a...
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...
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...
Carrie Lassiter was born into a missionary family in Nazareth, Ethiopia and raised in Kenya among the Maasai tribe in southern Kenya. After graduation from Rift Valley Academy, she returned to...
Shel Arensen, editor of Old Africa magazine, was born in an African country that's no longer on the map - Tanganyika Territory. He moved to Kenya in 1960 as a four-year-old with his...
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....
