Ramnik Shah
12 posts
Born in Kenya, practiced law in Nairobi from 1964 to ’74 and then for the next
30 years in England, where since retirement he has been engaged in academic research and writing on migration and diaspora related subjects and general literature. He is the author of ‘Empire’s Child’. See also www.ramnikshah.blogspot.com
DARK TIMES
London Calling This is normally the time of the year when one looks back to what it has…
March 8, 2024
Letters To The Editor
Dear Editors On receipt of AwaaZ Issue 3, 2022, I straightaway launched into reading about Willy Mutunga. Gosh, what…
April 30, 2023
Broken Britain!
This is a cry often heard and written or spoken about on our home ground. No doubt its…
April 30, 2023
Football Mania
Britain is a football mad country, and so there was widespread jubilation when England beat Iran 6-2 and…
December 5, 2022
1972 + Fifty
That makes 2022, and here we are looking back, from diverse angles, on what happened fifty years ago,…
August 20, 2022
Zanzibar Stories
We take vicarious pleasure and pride in the achievements of those we love: family and friends, naturally. Beyond…
April 2, 2022
J M Nazareth remembered
London Calling Special I have been re-reading J M Nazareth`s `Brown Man Black Country: A Peep into Kenya`s…
October 18, 2021
London Calling – Karim Hirji and Me
I was drawn to Karim Hirji when I read Godwin Siundu’s review of his Growing Up With Tanzania:…
June 28, 2021
Pandemic Fallout
London Calling So a whole year of Covid–19 has passed and we are still mired in the thick…
March 10, 2021
People of Colour
US Election 2020: relax, the nightmare is over! Not quite, not yet, alas. There is no doubt however…
December 19, 2020