BONGO BOOKS wish to announce 1st Jan 2008

BONGO BOOKS Availability & Prices at 1st Jan 2008

FURTHER MEMORIES OF COLONIAL EAST AFRICA
ISBN 978-0-9547249-1-7 collected and edited by Norman & Gillian Cuthbert.
Available NOW direct (see address below) or from your local bookshop
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CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF COLONIAL EAST AFRICA 1920-1963
A reprint of ISBN 0-9547249-0-9 Edited by Joan Considine and John Rawlins
Now out of stock. Unlikely that we shall have another reprint..

PRICES Each book is now priced at £10 in the UK and is available:
1) for cash sale collected at venue £10.00 2) by 2nd class post in the U.K £11.50
3) by air within the E U £13.30 4) by Air Overseas £15.40
If ordering direct in the UK, please mail your order with a Sterling cheque made out to “Bongo Books” and address to: John Rawlins, Bongo Books, 27a Shady Lane,
Slyne-with-Hest, Lancaster, LA2 6JD Email: bongobooks@hotmail.com
For those ordering by mail outside the UK who do not have a sterling bank account,
please ask your bank to provide you with a sterling cheque in favour of Bongo Books
and mail it with your order to John Rawlins as above.
or ask your bank to make a credit transfer for the equivalent of the £ sterling price
to NATWEST BANK, Bongo Books Account No17861373 Branch 60-24-77
If ordering by EMAIL , note we have joined PayPal and can invoice you by email if you request it. All you have to do is to click the button on the invoice and provide PayPal with your Credit Card Number thus enabling you to pay in your local currency.
For further details, visit our blog site www.bongocolonial.blogspot.com

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ORIGINS

Bongo Books was started as a small publishing adventure by Joan Considine and John Rawlins in 2003 with an interest in recording personal memories or stories of East African Colonial History from those still alive from the early days of the whole period 1920 - 1963 and willing to write them down whilst still compos mentis. We collected and edited these memories and then published them in some haste in April 2004. They seem to have been well received and generally enjoyed by ex-East Africans as well as a substantial number of people resident in the U K with probably some previous experience of visiting that region. We are conscious of a lack of participation by other racial groups living in East Africa in that period and would welcome their contributions to any more books that we can publish. We are contemplating another book now and if they wish to have more information they should read the rest of this web-site and they either email us at the address shown or write to us at:
Bongo Books, 27a Shady Lane, Slyne-with-Hest, Lancaster, LA2 6JD, England.

NAIROBI SCHOOL

The cover of "Childhood Memories" is based on a photo taken of the school in about 1927-1930 from the style of clothing and some of the people identified. We would like to have more information about the school. Does anyone know if a history of the School has ever been written and if so by whom and when ? The original school started before WW1 and was attended by Beryl Markham who was sent there from Njoro in 1911 according to her biographer Errol Trzebinski in "The lives of Beryl Markham ". It was then called The Nairobi European School and was later to become the Nairobi Primary School when the older pupils were hived off to the secondary Kenya Girls High School and the Prince of Wales School for boys. Since Independence in 1963 the Prince of Wales School has become known as Nairobi School.
If anyone would like to have a copy of this photo to help in the identification of those on it, please communicate. By email to : bongobooks@hotmail.com or to the postal address shown for book ordering on this site. It is a remote chance that someone in the photo is still alive and able to recall who was there when the picture was taken.

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