Two months after I started this column in 2015, a family friend and avid reader of my articles presented me with an autographed copy of a book ‘And so it goes’, a collection of anecdotes by Edward Rodwell, the prolific author and columnist.
Little did he know that I had been reading Edward Rodwell’s column “Coast Causerie” in the East African Standard, as it was then known, since my school days in the 1960s. I must admit that my writing has been greatly influenced by Edward Rodwell in his warm sense of humour, self-deprecating approach and his eye for the curious and sometimes contradictory in life.
