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Trevor Almeida's Film, Secrets of the Kimberley, Winner of the 2018 Best Ecosystem Film Trevor Almeida is the son of Alfreida (Class of 55) and Bona Almeida (ex Nairobi), Melbourne, Australia Abstract: Scientists and artists attempt to explore the isolated Kimberley marine region through some innovative photographic techniques and randomly discover a new natural world. The Kimberley is one of the most ecologically diverse areas of the world. Its marine ecosystems are amongst the world’s most pristine. At 424500 square kilometres, the Kimberley is bigger than Italy or Germany and it has over 3000 uninhabited islands. This documentary takes you on an expedition into this remote region with a team made up of an artist and scientists. What they find redefines their values and how they view the natural world. It showcases one of the last great wilderness areas through incredible wildlife-great and small. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lP5tkF0O60 Trevor has been prod...

NELSON DIAS: So sad to hear about the demise of Lewis, a friendship that started in primary school. Lewis lived just off Forest Road, nearly opposite the Sikh Union club, and our family home was on Forest Road just a short distance away. We were constantly in each other's homes or venturing into City Park, constantly playing and enjoying the thrills of that forested park. It was not at all dangerous in those days. As time moved on and changes came to the country and I departed for the UK in 1965, not quite sure what I would find in this new land. In 1985 I was working in Saudi Arabia and we got a lot of overseas leaves in the job. I decided to pay Kenya a visit. At that time I was working in northern Saudi, near the Jordanian border, at a place called Tabuk. I drove down to Jeddah, a few hundred kilometres away, and paid a visit to a travel agent. I explained what I wanted and he came up with a proposal, a stay in the Ambassador hotel and flights etc. I paid him a ret...

Olaf Kenneth Ribeiro, an extraordinary man Olaf next to one of the oldest trees in his neck of the woods Olaf Kenneth Ribeiro was born in Nairobi Kenya, the son of Dr Manuel & Angel Ribeiro de Santana.  His siblings include the late Dr Gerry Ribeiro – Cancer researcher at the Christie Holt Radium Hospital in Manchester, UK, the late Hubert de Santana – writer and poet, Toronto, Canada and sister Teresa Quadros presently living in Paradise Valley, Arizona. His grandfather Dr Rosendo Ribeiro was the first medical doctor in Kenya arriving on a Dhow in 1900. He made his medical rounds on a zebra. The only person to have ever tamed a zebra! THIS IS HIS STORY I went to the Doctor Ribeiro Goan School in Nairobi and later transferred to the Technical High School to finish my secondary education. I then went to Britain to finish my pre-college curriculum. Then received a scholarship from the Kenya Government to attend Egerton Agricultural College, Njoro, Kenya whe...

APRIL 24, 2019 Disdain and Dignity: An Old (Anti-Imperialist) Story by   SUSAN BABBITT (From Counterpunch) Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Photograph by Joshua Frank One good comes from Assange’s arrest, as many have noted: Wikileaks revelations are in the news. We hear the sneering at “dead bastards”. We  hear  the disdain. There are truths which, if understood intellectually, are not understood fully. Imperialism is one. We know it intellectually without knowing it. In the Wikileaks video (2010), we  feel  it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0 Death is another such truth. Everyone knows everyone will die but no one believes  they  will. If they did, they’d live differently. It happens to Pierre in  War and Peace.  He is lined up to be shot and is spared. The young man before him dies. Pierre wanted meaning but now “this sought-for purpose of life … did not and could not exist.” I...