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Shel
Shel
Arensen
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 parents and went to school at Rift Valley Academy. Shel studied magazine journalism at University of Oregon in the USA and came back to Kenya in 1981 with his wife Kym and has worked in Kenya as a writer-editor with Today in Africa magazine before starting Old Africa magazine in 2005 together with his good friend Mike Adkins. In addition to editing magazines, Shel has written nine children's novels in the Rugendo Rhino series as well as the Dust of Africa, a rugby novel set in Kenya.
I just got back from a road trip in Tanzania, where the roads were pleasantly paved. Our 20-year-old Land Cruiser performed well without so much as a puncture. On my return to Kenya I found a comment on my Old Africa blog asking for a photo of the Volkswagen car my family had driven to Congo...
I rode in the back of our white Volkswagen beetle, registration KCY 434, from central Kenya to northeastern Congo in 1968 when I was 12 years old. My father had to speak at a conference at Rethy. We drove through Eldoret, into Uganda and Kampala before driving northwest and crossing the Nile...
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 Vialou Clark, drove us...
Jon Arensen, Old Africa books best selling author of Drinking the Wind and Chasing the Rain, shares at his last chapel address as a faculty member at Houghton College.
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