East Africa in the Fifties: A View of Late Imperial Life

Abstract

The arrival not the journey matters learning fast - Baruas at breakfast, hue and cry moonflowers and chameleons living exotically - Dukas, facing Mount pastimes, clubs and snobs, an east African Mrs Beeton's ceremonial occasions - ordeal by garden party, Bonnie King Freddie, why Abunwazi went to gaol wildlife and diseases firearms, settlers, milk and sex uncommon tasks - getting about in east Africa, Mau-Mau Kenya, Kilimanjaro and Dar, Isle of Cloves, jobs for Africans elephants have right of way - Kenya's highlands and coast, with the lepers in south-western Uganda, out and home tome to leave.