The names are carved on poles of African hardwood that are set upright as if reaching for the sun. No one knows where the men they represent were buried. But their names, forgotten for more than a ...

This carving of what I think is a native rifleman of the Kings African Rifles belonged to Doctor L S B Leakey of Olduvai Man fame (1903-1972). As a small boy in the early 1940s I lived in a very ...