Notes In The Margin » africa

How the Leopard Got His Spots, by Rudyard Kipling, from the Just So Stories.

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When I was going to St. Andrews School, in Kenya, 20 years ago or so, one of our arch-rivals was Pembroke House, another boarding school. Here at the conference, one of the meeting rooms is named...

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** Transcribed from the original manuscript ** In 1986, I think, my class from Nairobi Academy went to Mt. Longonot for a field trip. No zoo or chocolate factory for us, no sir. We climbed a moun...

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** Transcribed from the original manuscript ** Yesterday I discovered that the word in the Toto song ‘Africa’ is ‘bless’, not ‘miss.’ I always knew it as ‘miss.’ Obviously, it sho...

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My sister wrote a wonderful poem called Where I’m From, based on George Ella Lyon’s poem of the same name. Of course, you may not have any idea what she’s talking about, but I certainly do....

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In my ongoing quest to convert my old LPs and tapes to usable formats, I came across the tape “Roger Whittaker in Kenya”, and now I’m very homesick, listening to “Good old E.A.R.&H.”, �...

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Today was “Unity Day” at Sarah’s school. The kids were learning about different cultures, particularly the different cultures represented in thhe families of their classmates. I talked abou...

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Turns out that, as of roughly a month ago, there is in fact an Ethiopian restaurant in Lexington. It’s right at Euclid and Ashland, near Chevy Chase, just a few minutes from UK. They are only o...

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I just saw Hotel Rwanda. I simply don’t have words to express how it affected me. If you care about justice, or about peace, or about Africa, or, indeed, about your fellow human behing, you nee...

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Yesterday I had thanksgiving dinner with a very international crowd. Most of them were Kenyans, but there was also a Swede, several USAians, and a Bolivian. We had the traditional Thanksgiving me...

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