What began as light jogging evolved into competitive running and, later, triathlons. “Running became my therapy,” she said. “It’s where I found balance and clarity.” Today, Haboub combines that ...

In her memoir, The Flame Trees of Thika, Elspeth Huxley describes the ride on an ox-cart with her mother from the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi to the Blue Post Hotel in Thika.