Tag: Street Names

• Street names: signposts to history

  

  ‘What’s in a name?’ Juliet asked, when she was telling her Romeo not to worry about the rivalry between their clans – the Capulets and the Montagues. She was wrong, wasn’t she?  Shakespeare’s plot took a more realistic and tragic account of clan conflict. For some time, I have enjoyed taking note of the history…

  John Fox

  17/07/2022

  Travel

  Dennis Pritt, General Mathenge, Harry Thuku, Nairobi, Street Names, Waiyaki Way

• Travelling the Mombasa Road with Google

  

  All week it had rained. It looked like it would rain all weekend. ‘What do Kenyans do when it rains?’I once asked a Kenyan friend when I first arrived here in the mid-1980s. ‘If they can afford to, they stay indoors,’ he said. That’s what I did last weekend. When, a few months ago, I…

  John Fox

  15/05/2016

  Travel

  Makindu, Nairobi, Place Names, Street Names