Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa (Neumann) 18–19
elephants 18–19, 92–3, 127–8
Eliot, C. W. 12
Elizabeth I 97, 195, 240
Elizabeth II 139
Elliot, George Francis Scott 259
Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (1886–9) 16, 17–18 and note, 21, 71n, 115
The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat (Kapúsciński) 276
Entebbe 138
Ethiopia 86, 188, 190–4, 198–202, 205, 236
Ethiopian National Theatre (Addis Ababa) 196, 207, 211
Euclid 6, 8, 29, 30n, 178
The European Magazine 59
Evans, George 61
Eve’s Children (Leakey) 157
Falkland, James 217
Farah 118–19, 222
Field Museum (Chicago) 91
Finch-Hatton, Denys 11–12, 113, 114–15
First Folio (1623) 8
Freddie of Buganda see Mutesa Edward II of Uganda
Freeland Association 72–5, 184
Freeland (Hertzka) 72
Freud, Sigmund 3
Gaisberg, F. W. 102
Gakaara wa Wanjaū 152–4
Gallipoli 92n
Garang, John 239–40
Gargantua (Rabelais) 260–1
Gassasa, Tasfaye 207
Gastaldi, Giacomo 200–1
Gelada baboon 192 and note
General Wingate School (Ethiopia) 194
Geographical Historie (Leo Africanus) 34n
Ghana 127
Gibbon, Edward 18n
Gikuyu Central Association 126
Gikuyu tribe 68n, 77, 79, 81–2, 115, 116, 117–19, 121n, 122, 144, 146, 147, 154–5, 165, 217, 227, 233, 266, 269
Globe Theatre (London) 228, 238, 239, 241
Golden Bough (J. G. Frazer) 16
Gordon, General Charles George 234
A Grain of Wheat (Ngugi wa Thiong’o) 58
Gramophone Typewriter Limited 102
Great Zimbabwe 70
Grigg, Edward 115
Guevara, Aleida 177–8
Guevara, Ernesto ‘Che’ 176–9, 184, 218
Gurnah, Abdulrazak 47, 142n, 263
Hadithi za Kiingereza (‘Tales from the English’) 50, 119, 126, 180
first edition 30, 261–2
four stories in 31–2
and performance of ‘Merchant’ 51–2
printed/translated by Steere 30–4, 40, 48, 49, 53, 100, 121, 180, 261–2, 263
simple language of 32–4
survival of 30
Haggard, Henry Rider 64–70, 71, 76, 78, 82, 83, 86, 87, 88n, 265, 266
Haggard, John ‘Jack’ 64, 65
Haile Selassie I University 189
Hajj 6
‘Hamitic Hypothesis’ 68n
Hamlet 2, 16, 19, 59–60 and note, 61–3, 80, 93, 96, 101, 106, 120–1 and note, 140, 151–2, 188, 202, 210, 225, 239, 262, 264–5, 267
Hamlét (trans. Tsegaye Gebre Medhin) 205, 207–8
Happy Valley set 111–14, 129
Harar, Bishop of 194
Hardinge, Henry, 1st Viscount 93–4
The Harvard Classics 259
Harvard University 12
Hasan, Mehadi 101, 102, 103–4
Haviland-Lawrence company (or Haviland-Coleridge company) 80, 267
Hawkins, Captain 60, 61
Heart of Darkness (Conrad) 16–17, 21, 53, 72, 74
Hector (ship) 59, 60
Henry IV Part I 173
Henry IV Part II 130, 141, 173
Henry V 78
Henry VI Part I 81
Herodotus 112, 178
Hertzka, Theodor 72
Herzl, Theodor 73n
Hindustani 91, 95, 267
HMS Highflyer 49
Holloway Company 80
Homer 12, 112
Huntington Library, San Marino (California) 7
Huxley, Julian 165
Huxley, Thomas 3
Ibsen, Henrik 79
IMF (International Monetary Fund) 220, 233
Imperial British East Africa Company (IBEA) (Kumpani) 75
In the House of the Interpreter (Ngugi) 142n
India 3, 36, 86
Indian Amateur Dramatic Society 95
Indian community 125
arrival in East Africa 93, 94–5
knowledge of Shakespeare 93–4
performances of Shakespeare 94, 95–107, 268
International African Service Bureau 146
Islam 34
Iyasu, Lej 208
Jabir, Assiah 141
Jamaica 69
James I 195, 196, 240
Jiddat al-Harasis desert (Oman) 10
Johnson, Samuel 200, 201, 276
Jonson, Ben 268–9
Juba 232–5
Julius Caesar 47, 81, 140–1, 142–3, 148–9, 161, 162–4, 167, 169–75, 179, 194–5 and note, 196
Julius Caezar (Julius Caesar trans. Nyerere) 47, 163–4, 169–75, 220
Jumlay, Yakubaly 99
Kabaka 18n
Kabila, Laurent 176
Kalidas 93
Kama Sutra (trans. Burton) 6
Kamante 12, 30–1, 133
Kamau, Johnstone see Kenyatta, Jomo
Kampala 18n, 138–40, 269
Kapur, Neera 101
Kapúsciński, Ryszard 276
Kayamba, Martin 126n
Keeling, Captain William 59–61, 62, 264–5
Kenya 11, 66, 75, 77–8, 111, 133, 155, 214–17, 277–8
Kenya Colony 94, 115, 151
Kenya Institute of Education 216
Kenya Legislative Council 146
Kenya Ministry of Education 216, 219
Kenya National Theatre (Nairobi) 217
Kenya Times 216, 277
Kenyatta, Jomo (formerly Johnstone Kamau) 68n, 126–9, 154–5, 159, 166, 184, 233
Kenyatta, Uhuru 129–30
Kerr, Walter Montague 14
Khartoum 233, 236, 238
Khoon ka Khoon (Hamlet) (Mehadi Hasan) 101
Khubsurat Bala (Macbeth) (Agha Hashr) 100
Kikuyu see Gikuyu
Kim (Kipling) 15
Kimberly 71
King John 96
King Lear 31, 32, 93, 96, 106, 115–16 and note, 117, 136, 145, 197, 208, 225
King Solomon’s Mines (Haggard) 64–5, 66–9 and note, 70 and note
King’s Men 60, 131
Kipling, Rudyard 15, 79
Kiyimba, Abasi 144–5
Koran 19, 237
Krapf, Johannes 68n
Kumpani see Imperial British East Africa Company (IBEA)
Kurmuk 236
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (D. H. Lawrence) 131
The Lake Regions of Central Africa (Burton) 7, 8, 9
Lake Tanganyika 20
Lake Victoria 8, 105, 138, 165
Lalibela 193 and note
Lamb, Charles 31, 62
Lamb, Mary 31, 62
Lamu 64, 66, 72–5
language 149–52
The Leader newspaper 125
Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett 154–7, 159, 202, 208, 233
Leakey, Richard 202
Lebna Dengel 191, 202
Lee, Henry 79
Leo Africanus 34n
Leopold II of Belgium 21
Let the Guilt of his Crimes Weigh Heavily on His Conscience (Gakaara wa Wanjaū) 152–3
‘Lillibulero’ 219, 220
Lima, Dom Rodrigo de 191
Lithuania 219
Livingstone, David 20, 36–7
Loanda 22
Lobo, Jerónimo 193, 276
London 128–9, 240
London Cultural Olympiad (2012) 228, 232
Lord Chamberlain’s Men 130, 195
Lorna Doone (R. D. Blackmore) 15
Love’s Labor’s Lost 29
Lualaba River 22
Lukiko 143
The Lusiads (Camöes) 62n, 86–7
Mabepari wa Venisi (The Merchant of Venic
e trans. Nyerere) 179–83
Mabruki, Francis 39
Macbeth 22, 96, 100, 106, 136, 145, 188, 195, 202, 210, 225
MacKinnon, William 75
MacPherson, Margaret 140, 141
Madagascar 60
Maddow, Rachel 72
Madore, Mrs 79
Magdalene College (Cambridge) 127
Maharashtra 94
Maji Maji rebellion (1907) 167
Makanyassa, Owen 39, 263
Makbez (Macbeth trans. Tsegaye Gebre Medhin) 205
Makerere magazine 140, 166
Makerere University (Kampala) 137, 138–45, 140, 165–6
Makonnen, Ras Tafari 208
Malawi 71, 141
Malinowski, Bronisław 68n
Malual, Brigadier General Awur 235–7, 238
Mandela, Nelson 148–9
Mantegna, Andrea 192n
Markham, Beryl 129
Marx, Karl 176
Massawa 191
master-servant relationship 130–3
Matabeleland 78
Mathu, Eliud Wambu 146–7
Matthew (Armenian monk) 191
Mau Mau 142, 147–8, 149, 150–1, 153, 154, 155, 167, 168, 174, 271
Mauritius 62n
Maxwell, Robert 216
Mazrui, Alamin 143
Mbagathi Ridge 112
Mbagathi River 112
Mbweni (Zanzibar) 51–2
Measure for Measure 78, 154
Mecca 6
Mediterranean 1
Meek, Charles 175, 271
Memli 123
Menelik II 199, 208
Mengistu Haile Mariam, Colonel 211
The Merchant of Venice 31, 32–3, 51–2, 80, 95, 98–9, 100, 102, 109, 118–19, 146–7, 179–83, 227, 262, 277
Mercury, Freddie 58
The Merry Wives of Windsor 228
Michel, Louise 74n
Middle East 36
A Midsummer Night’s Dream 85
Mobutu, Joseph 177
Moi, Daniel 215–16, 218–19, 220
Molucca Islands 59
Mombasa 86, 88, 90, 94, 97–107, 110
Mombasa Shakespeare Group 95, 268
Montaigne, Michel de 181–2
More, Thomas 16
Moresby treaty (1822) 38
Mount Kenya 68
Mount Kilimanjaro 15, 68
Mozambique 62n, 71n
Much Ado about Nothing 86n, 172
Muigwithania newspaper 126, 127
Mungai, George 227
Murchison, Sir Roderick 3
Mussolini, Benito 194
Mutai, Chelagat 217
Mutesa Edward II of Uganda (‘King Freddie of Buganda’) 127
Muthaiga Club (Nairobi) 129, 133
MV Spice Islander 59, 264
My Fair Lady (musical) 131
Naipaul, V. S. 74, 143
Nairobi 38, 93, 114, 124, 129, 206, 214–16, 234, 269
Napoleon Bonaparte 3
Natal Mercury 80
Native Authority School (Musoma) 165
Natural History magazine 119–20
Ndorobo 19
Netanyahu, Binyamin 92n
Neumann, Arthur H. 18–19
New Indian Opera and Theatrical company 99
New Indian Theatre (Mombasa) 98
New York Herald 22, 23
Ngaliema 21
Ngugi wa Thiong’o (formerly James Ngugi) 58, 142 and note, 165, 217–18
Nicea, Council of (325) 191
Nigeria 120
Nile 2–3, 4, 6, 8, 22, 89, 112, 234
Nkrumah, Kwame 127, 128, 166
Nuer people 240
Nyasaland 4
Nyerere, Kambarage ‘Julius’ 68n, 216, 218
attends University of Edinburgh 166
biographies of 163, 272
birth, childhood and education 164–5
helps found Organization for African Unity 189
move to have him canonized 163 and note
political career 166–9, 175
as President 47, 140, 157, 168–9
as scholar-statesman 164
Socialist programmes of 47, 164, 175–6, 179–80, 183–4
studies at Makerere college 140, 165–6
translates Julius Caesar into Swahili 47, 163–4, 169–75, 220
translates Merchant of Venice into Swahili 179–83
Nyeri 113
Obote, Milton 138, 141, 142–3
Odysseus 2
Okot p’Bitek 143
Old English Comedy Company 80
Oman 36
Omo Valley 202
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy 133
Organization for African Unity (OAU) 189
Otelo (Othello trans. Tsegaye Gebre Medhin) 211
Othello 80, 96, 188, 196–7, 210, 227, 278
Otiendo, J. M. 277
Ottomans 234, 236
Out of Africa (Blixen) 12, 113, 118
Out of Africa (film, 1985) 113
Oxford Union 36
Oxford University 65
Oxford University Press 169, 205
Padmore, George 128, 146, 166
Páez, Pedro 193, 276
paleoanthropology 156–7, 159
Pankhurst, Richard 194
Pankhurst, Sylvia 194
Parke, Thomas Heazle 15–17, 18, 19, 20
Parsi theatre 94
Pasley, Captain Thomas Malcolm Sabine 49
Patterson, John Henry 91–2 and note, 267
Pemba 35
Pentateuch 237
Pericles 59
Peters, Carl 71n
Philip II of Spain 97
Phoenix Theatre (Nairobi) 217, 227, 278
Piltdown Man 156, 157, 208
Pindar 178
Plato 140
Pliny the Elder 1–2
Pollack, Sidney 113
Pollock, Jackson 218
Pory, John 34n
Prester John 86–8, 189, 200, 207, 226
Prester John (Buchan) 88
prisons, prisoners 148–9, 151–4
Purchas his pilgrimes (1625) 60–1, 276
Pushkin, Alexander 223
Rabelais 260–1
Railway Club (Nairobi) 114, 129
Railway Museum (Nairobi) 106
railways 89–93, 98, 105–6, 110–11
Ramadan 41–2, 44, 46, 48
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (Johnson) 200, 201
Rastafarians 190
Remote People (Waugh) 194
Renaissance 2, 28, 172, 200
Render, Mrs 279
Reute, Heinrich 49
Rhodes, Cecil 70–2
Rhodes House (Oxford) 37, 72
Rhodes Trust 146
Rhodesia 4, 71, 157
Ricci, Matteo 30n
Richard II 76–7, 100, 141, 144, 187, 195, 213
Richard III 80–1, 96, 262
Rickinghall (Suffolk) 39
Rimbaud, Arthur 193, 194
Rising Star Company 99
Robben Island 148
Robben Island Bible 148–9
Rodrigues island 62n
Rogers, Maybell ‘May Bell’ 79
Romeo and Juliet 80, 96, 97, 106, 136, 141, 219, 227
Roosevelt, Theodore ‘Teddy’ 10–11, 12–14, 30, 113, 178
Rowlands, John see Stanley, Henry Morton
Royal Court Theatre (London) 196
Royal Geographical Society (London) 3, 20
Royal Navy 39
Royal Shakespeare Company 95
Rubadiri, James (later David Rubadiri) 141
Rungsted 114
Ruskin, John 65, 81, 265
Rwanda 208, 235
Said, Edward 223
St Jerome 237
St Mary’s 165
Salme, Seyyida 43, 49
Samburu warriors (Kenya) 10
Schnitzer, Eduard (‘Emin Pasha’) 17–18
Scoop (Waugh) 194
Selassie, Haile 188, 189, 193–4, 197, 200, 201–2, 206, 211,
223
Seligman, C. G. 68n
Selous, Frederick Courtney 70n
Senghor, Léopold Sédar 176
Shah Company 98
‘Shakespeare in the Bush’ (Bohannan) 119–20
Shakespeare Festival (Railway Club, Nairobi) 114
Shakespeare performance
on board ship 59–60 and note, 61–3, 264–5
Hadithi 51–2
by Haviland-Lawrence company 80, 267
by Indian community 93–107, 227
facilitated by the railways 88, 90, 93
Happy Valley set 113–14
Kenyan 217, 227–9
Makerere productions 137–45
Nyerere translations 47, 163–4, 169–75, 179–83, 220
partial list in the Official Gazette of the East Africa Protectorate (1915–1916) 95, 243–5
in prisons 152–3
South Sudan 238–42
Shakespeare, William (boy from Zanzibar) 39
She (Haggard) 65
Sheba, Queen of 70, 71, 189–90 and note
Shenandoah (battleship) 36
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 141
Sibi-Okumu, John 144
Skegness (Lincolnshire) 36, 40
slaves, slavery 26, 36–7, 38–9, 43, 49
Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (SPCK) 32, 262
Solomon, King 189–90 and note
Somalia 125, 211
Sonnets 59
Burton’s copy 7, 97
‘When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced’ (no. 64) 225–6
‘When to the sessions of sweet silent thought’ (no. 30) 50–1
South Africa 157
South Sudan 232, 234–5, 238–42
South Sudan Theatre Company 238
Soviet Union 219–20
Speare, Samuel 39
Speke, John Hanning 7, 9
SPLA see Sudan People’s Liberation Army
Stairs, William G. 18
Standard 216
Stanley, Henry Morton 17, 20–5, 29, 42, 61, 69, 75, 76, 82, 113, 222, 237
Steere, Edward 69, 81, 82, 159
background 40
character and description 40–1, 55–6
evangelizing activities 33, 38–40, 53–4, 149–50
prints/translates the Hadithi 30–4, 49, 53, 100, 121, 126, 180, 222, 261–2
problems locating places and landmarks connected with 41–9
quotations in his commonplace book 54–6
sent to Zanzibar 36–8
sets up printing press in Stone Town 38–9, 263
Steere, Mary Bridget 41
Steiner, George 226
Stone Town (Zanzibar) 34–5, 36, 38–9, 41–9, 97
Sudan 4, 17
Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) 232, 236, 239
Swahili 31, 139, 262
Swedi, John 39
Tabora Boys’ School (Tanzania) 142, 165, 194
Tagore, Rabindranath 93
Tales from Shakespeare (Lamb) 31, 145
Tales from Shakespeare (trans. Steere) see Hadithi za Kiingereza
The Taming of the Shrew 31, 32, 131, 145, 267, 277
Tanganyika 168–9, 176
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