Word: nanyuki
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...many a society. Otherwise, how could one explain society's fascination with the progeny and close relatives of powerful figures, from the Kennedys of the U.S. and the Gandhis of India to the Kabilas of the Congo and the Kenyattas of Kenya? James Louis Ndirangu Nanyuki, Kenya...
...from the Kennedys (and even the Bushes) of the U.S. and the Gandhis of India to the Kabilas of the Congo and the Kenyattas of Kenya? It is as if the desire to continue reverencing and being ruled by established bloodlines were encoded in our dna. James Louis Ndirangu Nanyuki, Kenya...
...nearest town--and telephone--is at Nanyuki, a 30-minute jeep drive away, on a dirt road. There, the boys experience a sort of role reversal. The local Kenyan kids--shoeless, many of them hanging out on the street corner sniffing glue--stare at the American boys' Nike high-tops and beg for money. Suddenly the students are no longer apprentice hoodlums from the slums; they're rich Americans with more than enough to eat, and bright opportunities...
...nearest town - and telephone - is at Nanyuki, a 30-minute jeep drive away, on a dirt road. There, the boys experience a sort of role reversal. The local Kenyan kids - shoeless, many of them hanging out on the street corner sniffing glue - stare at the American boys' Nike high-tops and beg for money. Suddenly the students are no longer apprentice hoodlums from the slums; they're rich Americans with more than enough to eat, and bright opportunities...
...knew a farmer in Kenya once, who lived with his wife and daughter on a spread as remote as he could find, in Laikipia, up above Nanyuki, among elephants and giraffes and baboons and lions. He'd been a coal miner in England, and looked a little like a tougher, non-literary D. H. Lawrence - dark-browed, long-faced. He came to Africa, he told me vehemently, "because I hate the sight of a paved road! I can't stand it!" His black eyes flashed violently...