Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
The life and times of Lulu van Rooyen
Other Name
As recounted to Olwyn Grant - 2019--cover subtitle (Alternate title)
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Place
Date
2019?
Physical Description
36, 24 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 30 cm
Language
English
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Related Object Notes
ACQ-2017-67
PH-2016-8
Subject Category
Content
Acknowledgments -- Gerhardina Salomina Louou - known as Lulu: born at Oicha, Belgian Congo, Africa -- background -- growing up -- changes over World War II time -- other happenings when growing up -- teenage years -- marriage & family -- African High Dutch Reformed Church -- on the farm: Kenya -- Kenya to Tanzania -- Tanzania to North and Southern Rhodesia - now Zambia & Zimbabwe -- Livingstone and on to South Africa -- emigrating -- traveling in Britain -- Waipawa -- another lucky escape: Westgate, Auckland 2000's -- my philosophy on life -- developing my outlook on life -- contemplating my life -- family tree -- Dr Carl K. Becker - Africa's greatest medical missionary -- early days in the Congo [photographs] -- Kenya -- 1977, sailed from Cape Town to New Zealand - S.S. "Australis" -- married New Zealander, Neil Kittow, 1980 -- Thomson's Falls
Public Access Text
[Keywords: Colonies and colonisation, British; Colonies--Africa; Mau Mau uprising; Africa, Sub-Saharan--Social conditions]
Signed by the author on acknowledgments page. Corrections in pen throughout.
Subject Notes
Gerhardina Salomina Louou (Lulu) van Rooyen was born in Oicha, Belgian Congo, and lived in Congo, Kenya, and South Africa before settling in New Zealand.
Collection Type
General Collection
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
Production Notes
Place of publication not identified
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