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Word: kairo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Travel Director Simon Thuo Kairo, 37, also a Kikuyu, is determined to disabuse tourists "of the myths of Hemingway and Robert Ruark-of the faithful, ignorant, black gun bearer and other noble savages of yesteryear." A graduate of a South Dakota Presbyterian college, Kairo put in two years as President Kenyatta's private secretary before staking $17,000 in receipts from his 300-acre cattle, maize and sheep farm to start Kenya's first African-owned safari operation. Kairo's safaris, however, are not designed for big-game hunting. Equipped with five Volkswagen minibuses, he takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: From White to Black | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

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