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Oscar Watkins was a Bisley shot and a hockey "Blue" for Oxford
University; a cavalry trooper in the Boer War; a magistrate on the
Kenya Slave Courts which freed the slaves early in this century;
Commandant of the 400,000-strong Carrier Corps in the East Africa
Campaign in World War I; acting Kenya Chief Native Commissioner and
Provincial Commissioner; and the first editor of a Swahilli
newspaper which, under his editorship, gained the largest
circulation of any paper in Africa.
He strove unceasingly to protect the interests of the African
peoples. Resisting the pressures from European settlers for more
labour to be made available to work on their farms, and for more
land to be made available for European settlement, he found himself
on a collision course with the settlers and their fiery leader Lord
Delamere, and a Governor who was inclined to take their part.
This tribute to Oscar Watkins is written by his daughter.
When Elspeth Huxley's pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in
Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred
acres of Kenyan scrubland, infested with ticks and white ants, and
quavering with heat. What they lack in know-how they make up for in
determination: building a grass house, employing local Kikuyu tribe
members and painstakingly transforming their patch of wilderness
into a working farm. Huxley's unforgettable childhood memoir is a
sensitive account of settler life at the turn of the twentieth
century and a love song to the harshness and beauty of East Africa.
In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers among the Kikuyu people, they built a house of grass, ate off a damask cloth spread over packing cases and discovered - the hard way - the world of the African.
In this sequel to The Flame of Thika, Elspeth Huxley takes up her
story after the family returns to Kenya after the First World War.
Her family and friends, their home and their travels, the glorious
wildlife and scenery, described in rich and loving detail, all
spring to life in this enchanting book. 'She knows East Africa and
she loves it. . . with a critical and understanding sympathy. ' The
Times 'What a marvellous writer. . . and what a Kenya it was. '
Financial Times
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