Kwa Heri Means Goodbye: Memories of Kenya 1957-1959

In 1953, when Dorothy Stephens and her husband lived in married student housing at the University of Michigan, she envisioned a safe, conventional life ahead. She never imagined living in Kenya toward the end of the Mau Mau uprising, plunged into an exotic new world, facing safari ants, wild bees, and a vicious monkey, and discovering a core of strength deep in her security-loving soul.

See Kenya through her eyes in its last tumultuous days as a British colony and witness the transformative ...