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"Where there has been racial hatred, it must be ended. Where there has been tribal animosity, it will be finished. Let us not dwell upon the bitterness of the past. I would rather look to the future, to the good new Kenya, not to the bad old days. If we can create this sense of national direction and identity, we shall have gone a long way to solving our economic problems." - Jomo Kenyatta 1985. |
There was for a number of years in Kenya, a tradition amongst many youngsters, of a “rite of passage” involving the climbing of “Kili” or Mount Kilimanjaro found in Tanzania - formerly Tanganyika Territory or Mount Kenya the highest mountain in Kenya. Most school-boy Kilimanjaro expeditions formed part of the “Outward Bound” courses offered and where not always affordable by all parents. Enter 
On Saturday at Norman's Oxford house another Delamere Reunion took place attended by around 18 old boys and partners. It was judged ia great success.
The Delamere School was established in Nairobi around 1956 in the premises of what had been The European Hospital and started out as a co-ed school ....