Dear Eddie In case you are working your way to becoming my third best friend, unfortunately these friendships are only extended to those who, in my humble opinion, have a certain kind of "intelligence". In my goanet posting, you were given all the necessary links and I asked for your assistance as to who was or who were the district commissioners of Marsabit in 1950?
As is always the case with you, instead of seeking to provide me with answers to my questions in a "professional" manner as a "Public Relations" official of this project, you have provided me with everything else. Under a separate posting to you, Melvyn has written an "idiots guide" highlighting the importance of dates and the material difference they make in historical documents. It is also remarkable of you to expect my comments on the static exhibition to extend to the book there is a big material difference between the two, even if they are on the same topic. For the record, Selma bhai is still my first "best friend", she has written A Railway Runs Through based on the stories she has been told or given by those who lived in East Africa. If my smile appears to others when in a photograph or in real life to be sardonic, so be it, they are entitled to write and say what they like in the same way that you and I are entitled to say and write what we like living in a democratic and free society. Rose Fernandes Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom 1 June 2014
