kenya slums

Denizens of Galole St

In writing the book, John and I ventured back to Galole St where he had slept on the sidewalk for three years. Here we encountered a band of locals, some of whom John remembered from his days on the street 30 years ago

John’s classroom

A kindly security guard allowed us to enter the school grounds on a Saturday. He also let us into John’s kindergarten classroom. Although the wall posters have changed since John sat in this classroom 30 years ago, these are much like those he learned from in the late 1980s.