John Kirkwood was a volunteer at Starehe boys’ Centre for some
years. I remember seeing him walk his dog very early in the morning. He was
virtually interested in all the activities of the school. If any school club
wanted to make visits – john always provided us. I at time think he bought two
land cruisers purposely for our sake. My first near encounter with him
is when one of the student was dying of cancer. The Late Philemon – he used to arrange
transport for us to go and visit him in the hospital.
I went for many school trips –visited schools like Limuru
girls and Loreto in the name of clubbing. I recall at some point I was an
official of a club we had just formed – Theological debating society .. we did
deep debate some of which is captured in Milele Africa – my first book. We went
to alliance boys at some point for a presentation.
Visiting Turkana for one week was the climax of all and I will
never forget it. We had just left school and a few of us joined John in giving
his mother a Kenyan trip. It is in this trip I saw acres of petrified forest, The
impact of this trip was so tremendous that I knew telling it to the people when
I went back to Nairobi would not be enough. I started writing note on the way.
John Kirkwood has been working in
Uganda for some time now.
Thank you for touching our hearts and showing us the real world when you could.
The below link tell a little of
his story –
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