Ladies and gentlemen,
it is an honor to be read by you this fine day. A big “thank you” goes to the owner of this site – Mohamad, who was gracious enough to invite me to write a guest post. My blog mainly consists of news related opinion pieces and creative writing, so I thought this post would be a nice change of scenery. Without further ado, I invite you to take a journey with me to Tunisia, a country which I visited over a decade ago, but still remember fondly.
Some people are popular. Does that make them leaders? Nope, not necessarily. Maybe they’re just “cool.”
In an article published by cnn on 26 of Africa’s most amazing places to visit, Kenya actually appears three times. Do I look surprised? Yes. A lot surprised. Because I expected better. There are lots of beautiful places to visit in Kenya: Maasai Mara, to watch the wild beasts cross the border from Tanzania, Fourteen falls, Mount Kenya, that is if you like mountain climbing, Lake Nakuru, there are lots of colourfull flamingos there and a lot more.
Molweni (which means “hello” to a group of people in Xhosa, one of our official languages)
Firstly, thank you Mohamad, for inviting me to share “My Africa” on your “Around the World Series”. I am honored that you chose me.
I would like to introduce myself; My name is Ally and I was born in Nairobi, Kenya. I did most of my schooling in Zimbabwe. My father was an Engineer and we moved around a lot. I have lived in a total of twelve places from East Africa right down to the southernmost tip of Africa: Cape Town. So I guess that makes me an African of British descent.
Mohamed kindly asked me to write a guest post for his blog and I thought you might enjoy some tales from my time in Cairo. My husband was given an overseas posting to Cairo, Egypt in the fall of 2002. It wouldn’t have been my first choice but my mum had died that year and an overseas posting seemed like an answer to my grief. His American company was particularly hopeless at finding us accommodation so I went out and contracted my own realtor who found us a beautiful villa to rent on a quiet street in the suburb of Maadi. Maadi means ferry crossing and the town was on the banks of the Nile at the southernmost edge of the huge city of Cairo. When we lived there, it was still on the edge of the desert and filled with wildlife. We had buzzards, foxes, Egyptian fruit bats and endless birds on migration.