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Guy’s African Family (Complete with Namesake)

April 24, 2011 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

As these African notes begin to wind down (after all, it’s now been nearly four months since I left Nairobi and the wonderful friends I got to know throughout Kenya), it seems appropriate to share a few more photographs of my African “family.” While I had noted the relationship in a previous post, there had not been time to edit the photographs, and I published just a couple.

Here’s what I wrote in that December 31, 2010 post:

Another highlight was a visit to Nyanguru Village, to go to Charles’s home and visit with his children and be with his and Jane’s family. I had visited Nyanguru Village, near Kisii, earlier in the year because Mr. Charles (who started out as my driver and quickly became one of my best friends in Kenya) had invited me to get to know his family. Go here to read about that visit.

 

Although I had been to Nyanguru Village before, this visit in December was very special because now I was going to have the opportunity to visit my African namesake. Claire Kwamboka Ombongi Masese, born just a few weeks earlier, is names for Charles’s recently deceased sister, and her first name is taken from my last name. I was very honored when Charles and Jane connected to “St. Clair” and chose to name their baby Claire. We’re calling her “Angel Claire,” which is her daddy’s special name for her. It was a wonderful day in Nyanguru Village (and in Mr. Guy’s heart) when we went to see Claire and all of Charles’s wonderful family.

Now I have the photographs of that family gathering, at Charles and Jane’s house on December 22, 2010. You can view them here.

Filed Under: Personal History Tagged With: Kenya - Nyanguru Village nr. Kisii, Masese (Charles Ombongi), Masese (Claire Kwamboka Ombongi)

Guy St. Clair is the Series Editor for Knowledge Services, from Verlag Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin, the scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature. The series subject is knowledge services, the approach to managing intellectual capital that merges information management, knowledge management (KM), and strategic learning, presenting and discussing new and innovative approaches to knowledge sharing in all fields of work. Guy also teaches in the Post-Baccalaureate Studies Program at Columbia University in the City of New York, where his course is Managing Information and Knowledge: Applied Knowledge Services. With Barrie Levy, he is the author of The Knowledge Services Handbook: A Guide for the Knowledge Strategist (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020). He is also the author of Knowledge Services: A Strategic Framework for the 21st Century Organization (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016).

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