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29: 250:: "'Na Kupa Hati M'zuri' (I Bring You Good Fortune) was, in my time, engraved in the stone of its great fireplace. Its broad lounge, its bar, its dining-room—none so elaborately furnished as to make a rough-handed hunter pause at its door, nor yet so dowdy as to make a diamond pendant swing ill at ease—were rooms in which the people who made the Africa I knew danced and talked and laughed, hour after hour." 227:
of Africa", where the elite "drank champagne and pink gin for breakfast, played cards, danced through the night, and generally woke up with someone else's spouse in the morning." According to Ulf Aschan, "The club had a rule, still in force today, that a member is entitled to damage any loose
268:). Whilst Waugh was unable to find accommodation on the premises, he discovered, upon his arrival in Nairobi, to be already a temporary member, as he had been registered by the secretary of the club who knew about his arrival. 231:
Today, the club is still frequented by the upper echelons of Kenyan society. In addition to social gatherings, the club offers accommodation. Many of its members play golf at the nearby Muthaiga Golf Club.
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describes the club as having had a reputation during colonial times as "the
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Imperial Reckoning: the untold story of Britain's gulag in Kenya
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describes the Muthaiga Country Club in his 1931 travel book
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in 1913, and became a gathering place for the colonial
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Coordinates
1°15′33″S 36°50′14″E / 1.2591°S 36.8371°E / -1.2591; 36.8371
Muthaiga Country Club
country club
Nairobi
Kenya
Muthaiga
New Year's Eve
British settlers
British East Africa
Colony of Kenya
The Hon
Anglo-Irish
aristocrat
Ulster
The 4th Earl of Enniskillen
The Hon
Lowry Cole
brother-in-law
Hugh, Lord Delamere
White community in Kenya
Caroline Elkins
Moulin Rouge
Beryl Markham
West with the Night
Evelyn Waugh
Remote People
When the Going Was Good
Lucinda Riley

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