Hayes, Margaret Ann

Born in the mellow English county of Devonshire, the author, after her second marriage and with her 4 children, travelled to Kenya, East Africa, where they lived for the next 23 years.

She identified closely with Kenyan women, recording their successes for Kenyan newspapers and magazines; "Sunday Post, The Nation Series of England language newspapers and "African Drum magazines. In the 70s, she was publisher of "Contact, the magazine of the Kenya Consumer's Association.

A skilled photographer, the author was present at many historic east African events, later writing a book of her Africa...