It occurred to me as one of the geriatric ‘Staying-oners’ in Kenya, who has lived in Karen both ‘Then and Now’, that those who were there then might be interested in a familiarization with the modern Karen and the younger generations who are there now, might be interested in the old Karen.

Any Old Africa reader, even those who have only passed through Karen once or twice on the way to the Ngong Hills to photograph herds of buffalo, will know the South Western Nairobi suburb is named after the Baroness Karen von Blixen.