Fifty years ago, a young man studying at Makerere wrote his first novel in English...
Two weeks ago, we marked the beatification of Sister Irene Stefani, a Catholic nun who came to Kenya early in the past century to work in a village in Nyeri.
She taught, treated and comforted the sick. She taught herself the local language, and would trek for miles visiting the sick. She died from bubonic plague after catching it from a patient who died in her arms. Her acts of mercy earned her the name, Nyaatha (One of Mercy).
