Luo Laughter "I speak of Africa and golden joys"



Sunday, 23 July 2017

An annoying puzzle

You know how you get little niggles and questions that ought to be simple to sort out, and they aren't ?   And they get bigger and bigger in your mind, and you can't leave it alone  .... stupid, I know !

Well I've been trying to find the answer to something ALL day (it has been raining heavily most of the day, so I had a good excuse !)    Maybe one of my ex-pat friends who read this, or anyone .... can tell me the answer.

Look at this map of a bit of N. W. Kenya:-



If you have a decent modern atlas, you will see this little bit of desert and dry bush (which I've indicated) is supposedly 'under Kenyan administration'.    Why ?

Does it belong to Kenya, or South Sudan  to the west, or Ethiopia to the east, all of which it shares boundaries with, or perhaps even Uganda to the south-west ?   

I have googled; looked in my massive 1970 Atlas of Kenya published by Survey of Kenya; checked in a modern atlas .... all to no avail.   

The ground to the west of it is part of S. Sudan, a district called Namorunyang .... see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namorunyang_State.   But it doesn't seem to include this little snippet of land .... 


Maybe I need to wash the dishes and have an early night !!!


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