Word: nairobi
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...film sheds new light on the exodus of one small group German Jewish refugees in the late 1930s. It’s the tale of Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer who goes to Africa to live with the European expatriate community (which is now mostly Jewish) in and around Nairobi. After opening with scenes of his family’s comfortable home life back in Germany, the film depicts the Redlichs adapt to their new home on a desolate Kenyan farm and struggle with relationships between family members and other refugees from Nazi-controlled Europe . Particularly interesting is Walter?...
Chief Kungu Waruhiu had just arrived at the Seventh Day Adventist mission 7 miles outside of Nairobi when a fusillade of shots smashed into his car, killing the Kikuyu leader instantly. The gunmen were Mau Mau rebels, members of a secret society who had vowed to drive the white man from the British colony of Kenya...
...Patricia Hernandez ’04 and seven other students who intended to travel to Kenya and Nairobi, the decision to came down to debate among those who had organized the trip over the potential dangers and a close vote...
Even for students who don’t plan to stay in the States forever, the career incubation period can be quite lengthy. Kabue, from Nairobi, Kenya, says it could take a generation for his home country to reap the rewards of his experience abroad. “I think it will be necessary for me to stay here for a few years, 10 maybe 20 years, to get the experience and money to take back to Kenya,” he says. “Everyone is hoping that I will come back with something new that you could...
...wine and writing about it. "I was lucky. I just found I had a nose for it," he says. His safari with Erica, also an ex-journalist, to 13 African wine-producing countries was a nostalgic reminder of a 17,000-km honeymoon trip from London to Nairobi via the Sahara Desert and Abidjan, Ivory Coast in a battered Land Rover. The Platters' latest expedition of discovery was anything but a leisure trip. Wine tasting in Africa, they concluded, was hardly a gentle ramble through the usual vineyards. Vine growing and winemaking in many parts of Africa, says John...