Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

Worker's Directory. He gave me a copy which I subsequently left with Michaelides.
We lunched at the China Plate in a rather more expensive lunch than I preferred. Bought a jar of
mineral water there and subsequently carried the jug through the rest of Africa.
In the afternoon we went to the Karen Blixen Museum and home. Some of "Out of Africa" was
filmed here. Jane was reading the book during the course of our Kenya travels. Saw the Ngong
Hills, like knuckles on the horizon (which is what "Ngong" means).
Nairobi means "cool waters." Nairobi is on the equator, though it is high, 7,000 feet. Kenya does
not have the European seasons, summer and winter. Instead they speak of long rains (March
through June 15) followed by a cool season (July/August) and then short rains.
"Safari" is Swahili for "journey."
June 19. Monday. In the morning, we visited the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
building outside Nairobi. Nice grounds. Talked to Sylve Campagne, who seemed familiar with the
operation there. She does personnel management. There are 242 professional people there, 84
nationalities. 481 Kenyans work there, largely in general service capacities. They operate about
170 conferences per year with international persons coming in. Also in this building complex, there
are the UNICEF offices for Kenya. We went there and talked to Dr. Kopano Mukelabai, officer in
charge.
At noon, we went to the University of Nairobi to meet Odera Oruka, professor of philosophy. He
has taught philosophy here for 24 years, and does environmental ethics. He has an M.A. from
Wayne State University in the U.S. and a Ph.D. from Uppsala in Sweden. He is increasingly
interested in environmental ethics. His father had ten wives and 36 children, 18 boys and 18 girls.
He was born in 1944. Had lunch with him on the patio of the United Kenya Club.
After lunch, I toured the library, with a rather old philosophy collection and lots of religion books.
They seemed mostly hand-me downs from clergymen and missionaries. None of my books were
in the card catalog but daddy's commentary on the pastoral epistles was! The bookstore was
closed for renovations.
We met two of Oruka's students:
F. Ochieng'-ODhiambo. Tall, he was my guide through the library.
Patrick M. Dikirr, doing his Ph.D. in environmental ethics.
The black buses here are "matatus" from the word for "three." The ride was once three shillings.
At my request we drove through River Street, a seedy and raucous business district.
We visited the St. Andrew's Church, originally a Scottish Presbyterian Church and now in the
Presbyterian Church of East Africa. This is the mainstream Presbyterian Church here, rather than
the evangelical one to which we were taken yesterday.
June 20. Tuesday. Went to Post Office.
We visited the East African Wildlife Society (2nd floor, Museum Hill Centre. Mailing address: P. O.