... development of areas of East Africa since the war, and the conferring of the status of a city on Nairobi, which only fifty years ago was a small collection of huts in the Kenya bush, has led to many comparisons between life in Africa to-day and at the beginning ...

... KENYA AS A FARMING COUNTRY By Lindsay G. Troup DEVELOPMENTS in Central and East Africa since the war and particularly constitutional changes and proposed changes, have drawn considerable atten tion to this part of the world. In this article, the first ...

... d that even the Sahara was once a forest and that this famous desert, too, was man-made those of us who saw North Africa during the war, with the Sahara getting closer and closer to the sea, found it hard to realise that it was once the granary of the ...

... Pedigree Dogs in East Africa THE EAST AFRICA KENNEL CLUB, which is affiliated to the Kennel Club of Great Britain, was founded in 1919 and organised its first show in 1920 at Nairobi with an entry of about thirty dogs. From the beginning it was considered ...

... ture in East Africa and explaining the schemes by which those who wish to take up farming there can be assisted. Farming in post-war Kenya has undergone a marked change from the pattern followed by British settlers before and during the war years. More ...

... easier times, the young people of South Africa, educated in the Agricultural Colleges, both here and overseas, are entering into the changed conditions with enthusiasm and energy, determined to bring South Africa into the position of a great dairying country ...

... Desert to Timbuktu then right through Central Africa to Lake Chad, a name which brings back memories of the war years and the exploits of the Free French then goes on down to Kampala and winds through East Africa to Addis Ababa, in Abyssinia and then, providing ...

... the I930's that karakul sheep began to be bred on an exten sive scale in South-West Africa (they were first introduced there from Afghanistan just after the First World War), they now yield some 3,500,000 pelts a year, and these skins are becoming increasingly ...

... approaching 50 in Northern Ireland. And herds have been established since the war in many other European countries as well as the U.S.A., Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Kenya, Argentina and Peru. The Dun Galloway cows and calves pictured here ...

... larger agricultural shows each summer there are always farmers from Kenya, for interest in the breed in East Africa has grown enormously since the war. There is a good export trade but because of the high cost of shipping the tendency is for Kenya farmers ...

... What F.A.O. is doing in Asia our own Colonial Veterinary Service is doing in many parts of Africa. WHERE THE PLAGUE STRIKES: Almost the whole of Asia and Africa suffers from frequent out breaks of rinderpest. Countries such as Abyssinia which are potential ...

... there were some good entries. THE NANDI WAR DANCE was a spectacular ring attraction and recalled the days when the tribe made frequent cattle raids into the Kitosh country of Nyanza and the Masai country. j WAR SHIELDS AND OSTRICH FEATHERS: The uar dances ...