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The Road to Everywhere
I’ve spent a lot of my working life on the road, an inevitable consequence of a long career in international development...
Eric Boa
5 min read
The Fossil finder and the Kingmaker
Two well-known and very different Kenyan characters died on the same day this month...
Dr. Mark Nicholson
5 min read
Holidays and history lessons
Our two youngest flew into Nairobi last Saturday for their long summer holidays. They arrived at 0100h...
Dr. Mark Nicholson
6 min read
Richard Meinertzhagen: the diary of a soldier in East Africa
The history of the world is mainly about the conquest of peoples by other, usually more numerous, stronger, or better-armed, opponents.
Dr. Mark Nicholson
7 min read
Cabbages, cabbage trees and the dwindling web of life
“The Creator, if he exists, has a special preference for beetles.”
The quote above is often misquoted, as is the attribution...
Dr. Mark Nicholson
7 min read
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