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  • Alternative Angle - Catch a Fire
    In this regular column a teacher, writer and media personality starts from personal anecdote to present an outsider’s reflections on the experience of a different community. The views expressed are entirely his own. His website: www.johnsibiokumu.comBranding is the thing these…
    Written on Thursday, 24 January 2013 Be the first to comment!
  • London Calling: Olympicmania
    London 2012 had been a long time coming but when it finally did, even the weather which had until then been literally a dampener (un(s)reasonably wet and cold) miraculously turned dry, sunny and warm - into a prolonged golden summer!…
    Written on Thursday, 24 January 2013 Be the first to comment!
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  • Ugandan Asians in Britain 40 years on: here to stay and fight
    Ugandan Asians in Britain 40 years on: here to stay and fight Socialist Worker 2320, 15 September 2012 Leo Ismail spoke to Ken Olende about his experiences on arrival in Britain in 1972 as a refugee from Uganda Some 27,000 expelled Ugandan Asians came in Britain in 1972, prompting a frenzy of…
    Written on Thursday, 24 January 2013 Be the first to comment!
  • The taste and aftertaste of the SAMOSA festival
    The taste and aftertaste of the SAMOSA festival My article on the birth and growth of the SAMOSA festival which was published in the October issue of the Nairobi Law Monthly attracted two interesting reactions. The first was a patronising condescension which correlated the passion with which the…
    Written on Monday, 28 January 2013 1 comment
  • Mau Mau: the revolutionary force from Kenya
    Mau Mau: the revolutionary force from Kenya SummaryMau Mau, the Kenyan liberation movement, has often been misunderstood in the West where it is either ignored as a revolutionary force or misrepresented as a primitive, “tribal” movement seen in isolation from its historical and political context.  This short…
    Written on Thursday, 24 January 2013 Be the first to comment!
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  • History of Nairobi Chess Club
    From the online encyclopedia Wikipedia we have the following: ‘The history of chess spans some 1500 years. The earliest predecessors of the game originated in India, before the 6th century AD. From India, the game spread to Persia. When the…
    Written on Thursday, 24 January 2013 Be the first to comment!
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  • Sugra Visram, 1923-2012
    Sugra Visram, 1923-2012 Sugra Visram was born in Kampala of Iranian parents who encouraged her to study and participate in extra-curricular activities. She became fluent in Cutchi, Gujerati, Hindi, Kiswahili, Luganda and English. In 1941 she met and married Haiderali Visram, grandson of…
    Written on Friday, 25 January 2013 Be the first to comment!
  • Remembering The People's Watchman
    Remembering The People's Watchman To walk with Joseph Martin Oluhanya Shikuku was a heart-warming experience. Wherever we went people stepped forward to speak to him. ‘Hujambo Mzee!’ ‘Jambo Shikuku!’ Outstretched hands reached out to him and he never ignored even one. 2009-2010, a small…
    Written on Friday, 25 January 2013 Be the first to comment!
  • Indravaden Tribondass (Bill) Inamdar: 1931 -2012
    Indravaden Tribondass (Bill) Inamdar: 1931 -2012 I first came to know Indravaden Tribondass (Bill) Inamdar in or about 1938/39 when I joined school in Mombasa and he was 3 – 4 years senior to me.  On completion of his Senior Cambridge/London Matriculation he left for England…
    Written on Friday, 25 January 2013 Be the first to comment!
  • Prof. Francis Imbuga, 1947-2012.
    Prof. Francis Imbuga, 1947-2012. ‘It was better while we waited. Now we have nothing to look forward to. We have killed our past and are busy killing our future.’ How poignant, how profound and how relevant to our times! These lines from Betrayal in…
    Written on Friday, 25 January 2013 Be the first to comment!
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