Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
Sitting on the shelf in my studio are four stamp albums. Three of them belonged to my Dad and the other belongs to Helen. He gave her these albums and I have them all for safekeeping. The post’s called loose leaves because in Dad’s ‘swops and to be included’ album are a few Kenyan stamps... Continue Reading →
Way back in 1990 I went on sabbatical leave to St Mary's College, Durham University, and produced an Atlas of Kenya. I specifically wanted to map where ethnic groups lived at independence (1963) and where they lived in 1979 at the end of President Kenyatta's government. I used the 1962 and 1979 population censuses to... Continue Reading →
Kenyatta University now has c43,000 students, when we left in 1985 there were about 1500! It's changed remarkably in recent times as I saw when I went back to KU in January to discuss an exchange agreement. Some of the changes are related to Kenya's aggressive National Vision 2030 which is aims to take the... Continue Reading →
The MyCOE/SERVIR fellows and mentors were taken on a tour of the main Kenyatta University campus by Prof. Onywere (you can see him greeting Dean Shisanya in the picture taken outside the main administration building). Kate and I both lectured at Kenyatta University at the start of our careers (1979 to 1985) so for me it... Continue Reading →
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