In this section

• Peter Marrian
• A short history of Mweiga Estate
• Letters from Martha Gellhorn
• Monograph and other documents
• Colin Campbell's tribute
• Obituary - by Miles Maskell

Basel, do you know what happens when you blow yourself up?  You don`t go to heaven.  You go into a hole in the ground, and you get covered up with dirt."

Rafiq Hamdouna, a former Fatah leader, to his son who said he wanted to be a martyr bomber.  Quoted in The New Yorker, September 11, 2006

 

Letters from Martha Gellhorn

Martha remained a good friend throughout her life (I was once summoned to Cadogan Square to give her a cooking lesson!) and would have written the Mzee many letters. These, curiously, were found amongst his brother's posessions after he died. How Morton came to have them is not known but he saw worth in them and they give a little snapshot of Martha's visits in late 1964 and early 1965